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||1897: Francesco Brioschi dies ... mathematician. | ||1897: Francesco Brioschi dies ... mathematician. | ||
||1908: Leon Bankoff born ... dentist, mathematician and Esperantist. He was responsible for the publication of some 300 top problems in the area of plane geometry, particularly Morley's trisector theorem, and the arbelos of Archimedes.[1] Among his discoveries with the arbelos was the Bankoff circle, which is equal in area to Archimedes' twin circles. Pic: http://math.fau.edu/yiu/AEG2013/BankoffCMJ.pdf | |||
||1908: Elizabeth Alexander born ... geologist, academic, and physicist. | ||1908: Elizabeth Alexander born ... geologist, academic, and physicist. | ||
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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.
2016: Signed first edition of Three Kings stolen from the New MIA in New Minneapolis, Canada by agents of the Killer Poke gang.