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||1867 – Kristian Birkeland, Norwegian physicist and author (d. 1917) | ||1867 – Kristian Birkeland, Norwegian physicist and author (d. 1917) | ||
||William Chauvenet (d. 13 December 1870) was a professor of mathematics, astronomy, navigation, and surveying who was instrumental in the establishment of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, and later the second chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis. Pic. | |||
||1885 – Annie Dale Biddle Andrews, American mathematician (d. 1940) | ||1885 – Annie Dale Biddle Andrews, American mathematician (d. 1940) | ||
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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.