Mathematics
- April 19 - Alonzo Church presents his paper "An unsolvable problem of elementary number theory", introducing his theorem on the Entscheidungsproblem, to the American Mathematical Society.
- George Pólya develops counting techniques for graphs as algebra.
- George K. Zipf proposes Zipf's law on probability distribution.
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