Births on February 27

Peter Whittle (mathematician)

Born on February 27, 1927

Peter Whittle, English-New Zealand mathematician and theorist

Peter Whittle (27 February 1927 – 10 August 2021) was a mathematician and statistician from New Zealand, working in the fields of stochastic nets, optimal control, time series analysis, stochastic optimisation and stochastic dynamics. From 1967 to 1994, he was the Churchill Professor of Mathematics for Operational Research at the University of Cambridge.[1]

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Events on 1927

10 Jan

Metropolis (1927 film)
Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.
23 Feb

Uncertainty principle
German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time.
5 May

Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf is first published.
27 May

Ford Model T
The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A.
26 Jun

Coney Island
The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.

Births on February 27

Peter Whittle (mathematician)

Born on February 27, 1927

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Events on 1927

Metropolis (1927 film)

Uncertainty principle

Virginia Woolf

Ford Model T

Coney Island