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||1744 – Pierre Méchain, French astronomer and surveyor (d. 1804) | ||1744 – Pierre Méchain, French astronomer and surveyor (d. 1804) | ||
File:Arthur Cayley.jpg| | File:Arthur Cayley.jpg|link=Arthur Cayley (nonfiction)|1821: Mathematician and academic [[Arthur Cayley (nonfiction)|Arthur Cayley]] born. He will be the first to define the concept of a group in the modern way, as a set with a binary operation satisfying certain laws. | ||
||1836 – Marc-Antoine Parseval, French mathematician and theorist (b. 1755) | ||1836 – Marc-Antoine Parseval, French mathematician and theorist (b. 1755) | ||
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1650: Monk, cosmographer, and cartographer Vincenzo Coronelli born. He will gain fame for his atlases and globes; some of the globes will be very large and highly detailed.
1694: Mathematician, astronomer, and crime-fighter Christiaan Huygens reveals in autobiography that he uses statistical analysis and games of chance to catch math criminals in the act.
1705: Mathematician Jacob Bernoulli dies. He discovered the fundamental mathematical constant e, and made important contributions to the field of probability.
1821: Mathematician and academic Arthur Cayley born. He will be the first to define the concept of a group in the modern way, as a set with a binary operation satisfying certain laws.
2017: Researchers publish new evidence that "suicide-by-Ultravore" is on the rise.