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[[File:Dorothea Lange 1936.jpg|link=Dorothea Lange (nonfiction)|175px|thumb|[[Dorothea Lange (nonfiction)|Dorothea Lange]] was a documentary photographer and photojournalist, remembered for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Her photographs influenced the development of documentary photography and humanized the consequences of the Great Depression.]] | |||
• ... that mathematician, physicist, physician, and philosopher '''[[Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (nonfiction)|Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus]]''' invented the Tschirnhaus transformation, by which certain intermediate terms are removed from a given algebraic equation? | • ... that mathematician, physicist, physician, and philosopher '''[[Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (nonfiction)|Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus]]''' invented the Tschirnhaus transformation, by which certain intermediate terms are removed from a given algebraic equation? | ||
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• ... that mathematician, physicist, physician, and philosopher Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus invented the Tschirnhaus transformation, by which certain intermediate terms are removed from a given algebraic equation?
• ... that mathematician Anne Penfold Street (11 October 1932 – 28 December 2016) was one of Australia's leading mathematicians; that her work on sum-free sets became a standard reference for its subject matter; that she helped found several important organizations in combinatorics, and supported young students with interest in mathematics?
• ... that mathematician and physicist Vito Volterra (3 May 1860 – 11 October 1940) joined the opposition to the Fascist regime of Benito Mussolini in 1922; that in 1931 Volterra was one of only 12 out of 1,250 professors who refused to take a mandatory oath of loyalty; and that Volterra wrote: "Empires die, but Euclid’s theorems keep their youth forever."?