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1561: Mathematician and physicist Thomas Fincke born. He will introduce the modern names of the trigonometric functions tangent and secant.
1655: Mathematician Jacob Bernoulli born. He will discover the fundamental mathematical constant e, and make important contributions to the field of probability.
1918: Mathematician and philosopher Georg Cantor dies. He invented set theory, a fundamental area of mathematical inquiry.
1931: Inventor Thomas Edison signs his last patent application.
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: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.
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 File:Jacob Bernoulli.jpg|link=Jacob Bernoulli (nonfiction)|1655: Mathematician [[Jacob Bernoulli (nonfiction)|Jacob Bernoulli]] born. He will discover the fundamental mathematical constant ''e'', and make important contributions to the field of probability.