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||1839 – Gaspard de Prony, French mathematician and engineer (b. 1755) | ||1839 – Gaspard de Prony, French mathematician and engineer (b. 1755) | ||
File:George Boole.jpg|link=George Boole (nonfiction)|1840: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[George Boole (nonfiction)|George Boole]] develops new system of symbolic logic which assists mathematicians in the detection and prevention of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |||
||1851 – Annibale de Gasparis discovers asteroid 15 Eunomia. | ||1851 – Annibale de Gasparis discovers asteroid 15 Eunomia. | ||
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1781: Astronomer and mathematician Johann Kies dies. He was one of the first to propagate Isaac Newton's discoveries in Germany, and dedicated two of his works to the Englishman.
1840: Mathematician and crime-fighter George Boole develops new system of symbolic logic which assists mathematicians in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.
1932: In Washington, D.C., troops disperse the last of the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans.