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||1870 – Agnes Sime Baxter, Canadian mathematician (d. 1917) | ||1870 – Agnes Sime Baxter, Canadian mathematician (d. 1917) | ||
||1871 – Augustus De Morgan, Indian-English mathematician and academic (b. 1806) | ||1871 – Augustus De Morgan, Indian-English mathematician and academic (b. 1806) Augustus De Morgan (/dɪ ˈmɔːrɡən/;[1] 27 June 1806 – 18 March 1871) was a British mathematician and logician. He formulated De Morgan's laws and introduced the term mathematical induction, making its idea rigorous. | ||
||1877 – Edgar Cayce, American mystic and psychic (d. 1945) | ||1877 – Edgar Cayce, American mystic and psychic (d. 1945) | ||
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1604: Mathematician Robert Fludd publishes new work on cellular automata theory and its application to crimes against mathematical constants.
1640: Painter, mathematician, astronomer, and architect Philippe de La Hire born. He will be the favorite pupil of Desargues, and develop conic sections and epicycloids based on the teaching of Desargues.
1899: Marie and Pierre Curie use radium compounds to detect and counteract crimes against mathematical constants.
1927: Journalist, writer, literary editor, and actor George Plimpton born.
2017: Lend a Hand declared Picture of the Day.