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||3102 B.C. The Kaliyuga begins according to the Indian mathematician Aryabhata (born A.D. 476). He believed all astronomical phenomena were periodic, with period 4,320,000= 20 × 603 years, and that all the planets had mean longitude zero on this date. [College Mathematics Journal, 16 (1985), p. 169.] *VFR https://pballew.blogspot.com/2019/02/on-this-day-in-math-february-18.html
||3102 B.C. The Kaliyuga begins according to the Indian mathematician Aryabhata (born A.D. 476). He believed all astronomical phenomena were periodic, with period 4,320,000= 20 × 603 years, and that all the planets had mean longitude zero on this date. [College Mathematics Journal, 16 (1985), p. 169.] *VFR https://pballew.blogspot.com/2019/02/on-this-day-in-math-february-18.html


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||1844: Jacob Lüroth born ... mathematician who proved Lüroth's theorem and introduced Lüroth quartics.  Pic.
||1844: Jacob Lüroth born ... mathematician who proved Lüroth's theorem and introduced Lüroth quartics.  Pic.


||1849: Jérôme Eugène Coggia born ... astronomer and discoverer of asteroids and comets.
||1849: Jérôme Eugène Coggia born ... astronomer and discoverer of asteroids and comets. Pic search maybe: https://www.google.com/search?q=Jérôme+Eugène+Coggia


File:Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi.jpg|link=Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (nonfiction)|1851: Mathematician and academic [[Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (nonfiction)|Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi]] dies. He made fundamental contributions to elliptic functions, dynamics, differential equations, and number theory.
File:Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi.jpg|link=Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (nonfiction)|1851: Mathematician and academic [[Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (nonfiction)|Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi]] dies. He made fundamental contributions to elliptic functions, dynamics, differential equations, and number theory.

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