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||1838: Bernard Courtois born ... chemist. | ||1838: Bernard Courtois born ... chemist. | ||
||1843: Gaston Tarry born ... mathematician and academic. | ||1843: Gaston Tarry born ... mathematician and academic. He pursued mathematics as an amateur, his most famous achievement being his confirmation in 1901 of Leonhard Euler's conjecture that no 6×6 Graeco-Latin square was possible. Pic. | ||
||1855: Paul Appell bonr ... mathematician and Rector of the University of Paris. The concept of Appell polynomials is named after him. Pic | ||1855: Paul Appell bonr ... mathematician and Rector of the University of Paris. The concept of Appell polynomials is named after him. Pic | ||
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1737: Physician, mathematician, and engineer Hubert Gautier dies. He authored the first book on bridge building, Traité des Ponts, in 1716, as well as books on roads, fortifications, antiquities, geology, and a first manual for watercolor practitioners.
1879: Mathematician and philosopher Hans Hahn born. He will make contributions to functional analysis, topology, set theory, the calculus of variations, real analysis, and order theory.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
1962: Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring is published, inspiring an environmental movement and the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
2017: The well-known illustration Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery sells for seven million dollars at charity benefit for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.