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File:Thomas Fincke.jpg|link=Thomas Fincke (nonfiction)|1561: Mathematician and physicist [[Thomas Fincke (nonfiction)|Thomas Fincke]] born. He will introduce the modern names of the trigonometric functions tangent and secant. | File:Thomas Fincke.jpg|link=Thomas Fincke (nonfiction)|1561: Mathematician and physicist [[Thomas Fincke (nonfiction)|Thomas Fincke]] born. He will introduce the modern names of the trigonometric functions tangent and secant. | ||
File:Jacob Bernoulli.jpg|link=Jacob Bernoulli (nonfiction)|1655: Mathematician [[Jacob Bernoulli (nonfiction)|Jacob Bernoulli]] born. He will discover the fundamental mathematical constant ''e'', and make important contributions to the field of probability. | |||
File:Georg Cantor 1894.png|link=Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|1918: Mathematician and philosopher [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|Georg Cantor]] dies. He invented [[Set theory (nonfiction)|set theory]], a fundamental area of mathematical inquiry. | File:Georg Cantor 1894.png|link=Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|1918: Mathematician and philosopher [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|Georg Cantor]] dies. He invented [[Set theory (nonfiction)|set theory]], a fundamental area of mathematical inquiry. | ||
File:John Hoyland Lebanon.jpg|link=John Hoyland (nonfiction)|2015: [[John Hoyland (nonfiction)|John Hoyland's]] ''Lebanon'' spontaneously generates new class of [[Gnomon algorithm]]. | File:John Hoyland Lebanon.jpg|link=John Hoyland (nonfiction)|2015: [[John Hoyland (nonfiction)|John Hoyland's]] ''Lebanon'' spontaneously generates new class of [[Gnomon algorithm]]. |
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1561: Mathematician and physicist Thomas Fincke born. He will introduce the modern names of the trigonometric functions tangent and secant.
1655: Mathematician Jacob Bernoulli born. He will discover the fundamental mathematical constant e, and make important contributions to the field of probability.
1918: Mathematician and philosopher Georg Cantor dies. He invented set theory, a fundamental area of mathematical inquiry.
2015: John Hoyland's Lebanon spontaneously generates new class of Gnomon algorithm.
2015: Color commentators call John Hoyland's Lebanon "colorful in a way that defies description."
2016: Cold weather depresses Bergamot oil market, industry analysts predict spike in gas chromatography prices.