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||1662 – Francesco Bianchini, Italian astronomer and philosopher (d. 1729) | ||1662 – Francesco Bianchini, Italian astronomer and philosopher (d. 1729) | ||
File:John Pell.jpg|link=John Pell (nonfiction)|1675: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[John Pell (nonfiction)|John Pell]] publishes new theory of equations with applications in the detection and prevention of [[crimes against | File:John Pell.jpg|link=John Pell (nonfiction)|1675: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[John Pell (nonfiction)|John Pell]] publishes new theory of equations with applications in the detection and prevention of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1724 – Franz Aepinus, German astronomer and philosopher (d. 1802) | ||1724 – Franz Aepinus, German astronomer and philosopher (d. 1802) | ||
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1516: Polymath Johannes Trithemius dies. He is remembered as a lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist.
1675: Mathematician and crime-fighter John Pell publishes new theory of equations with applications in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.
1887: Mathematician George Pólya born. He will make fundamental contributions to combinatorics, number theory, numerical analysis and probability theory.