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1165: Rabbi, philosopher, astronomer, and physician Maimonides condemns crimes against mathematical constants.
1561: Mathematician and physicist Thomas Fincke born. He will introduce the modern names of the trigonometric functions tangent and secant.
1918: Mathematician and philosopher Georg Cantor DIES. He inventED set theory, a fundamental area of mathematical inquiry.
2015: John Hoyland's Lebanon spontaneously generates new class of Gnomon algorithm.
2015: Color commentators call John Hoyland's Lebanon "colorful in a way that defies description."
2016: Cold weather depresses Bergamot oil market, industry analysts predict spike in gas chromatography prices.

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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:Thomas Fincke.jpg|link=Thomas Fincke (nonfiction)|1561: Mathematician and physicist [[Thomas Fincke (nonfiction)|Thomas Fincke]] born. He will introduce the modern names of the trigonometric functions tangent and secant.
 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]].