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File:Maimonides.jpg|link=Maimonides (nonfiction)|1165: Rabbi, philosopher, astronomer, and physician [[Maimonides (nonfiction)|Maimonides]] condemns [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Maimonides.jpg|link=Maimonides (nonfiction)|1165: Rabbi, philosopher, astronomer, and physician [[Maimonides (nonfiction)|Maimonides]] condemns [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Georg Cantor 1894.png|link=Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|1918: Mathematician and philosopher [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|Georg Cantor]] DIES.  He inventED [[Set theory (nonfiction)|set theory]], a fundamental area of mathematical inquiry.
File:John Hoyland Lebanon.jpg|link=John Hoyland (nonfiction)|2015: [[John Hoyland (nonfiction)|John Hoyland's]] ''Lebanon'' spontaneously generates new class of [[Gnomon algorithm]].
File:John Hoyland Lebanon.jpg|link=John Hoyland (nonfiction)|2015: [[John Hoyland (nonfiction)|John Hoyland's]] ''Lebanon'' spontaneously generates new class of [[Gnomon algorithm]].
File:Color commentators.jpg|link=Color commentator (nonfiction)|2015: [[Color commentator (nonfiction)|Color commentators]] call [[John Hoyland (nonfiction)|John Hoyland's]] ''Lebanon'' "colorful in a way that defies description."
File:Color commentators.jpg|link=Color commentator (nonfiction)|2015: [[Color commentator (nonfiction)|Color commentators]] call [[John Hoyland (nonfiction)|John Hoyland's]] ''Lebanon'' "colorful in a way that defies description."

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1838 – Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph system using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).

1931 – Thomas Edison signs his last patent application.

1561 – Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician and physicist (d. 1656)

1807 – Joseph Petzval, German-Hungarian mathematician and physicist (d. 1891)

1689 – Seth Ward, English bishop, mathematician, and astronomer (b. 1617)

1852 – Louis Braille, French educator, invented Braille (b. 1809)

1918 – Georg Cantor, German mathematician and philosopher (b. 1845)