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||1897: Jesse Douglas born ... mathematician and academic. He will contribute a general solution of the Problem of Plateau, which asks whether a minimal surface exists for a given boundary. The problem, open since 1760 when Lagrange raised it, is part of the calculus of variations and is also known as the soap bubble problem. Pic search.
||1897: Jesse Douglas born ... mathematician and academic. He will contribute a general solution of the Problem of Plateau, which asks whether a minimal surface exists for a given boundary. The problem, open since 1760 when Lagrange raised it, is part of the calculus of variations and is also known as the soap bubble problem. Pic search.
File:Marie Curie c1920.jpg|link=Marie Curie (nonfiction)|1901: Physicist, chemist, and [[Gnomon algorithm]] theorist [[Marie Curie (nonfiction)|Marie Curie]] publishes evidence that [[Extract of Radium]] is a parasitic [[transdimensional drug]].


||1903: Leopold Bernhard Gegenbauer dies ... mathematician remembered best as an algebraist. Gegenbauer polynomials are named after him. Pic.
||1903: Leopold Bernhard Gegenbauer dies ... mathematician remembered best as an algebraist. Gegenbauer polynomials are named after him. Pic.

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