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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.
1931: Inventor Thomas Edison signs his last patent application.
2016: Violet Spiral voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

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 ||2012: Roger Boisjoly dies ... aerodynamicist and engineer.
-File:Comparison_of_bergamot_oils_using_GC-MS_analysis_with_enantiomeric_column.png|2016: Cold weather depresses [[Bergamot essential oil (nonfiction)|Bergamot oil]] market, industry analysts predict spike in [[Chromatography (nonfiction)|gas chromatography]] prices.
+File:Violet Spiral.jpg|link=Violet Spiral (nonfiction)|2016: ''[[Violet Spiral (nonfiction)|Violet Spiral]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].
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