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||1557 – Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia, Italian mathematician and engineer (b. 1499) | ||1557 – Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia, Italian mathematician and engineer (b. 1499) | ||
||Robert Plot (b. 13 December 1640) was an English naturalist, first Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford, and the first keeper of the Ashmolean Museum. Pic. | |||
||1662 – Francesco Bianchini, Italian astronomer and philosopher (d. 1729) | ||1662 – Francesco Bianchini, Italian astronomer and philosopher (d. 1729) | ||
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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.