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• ... that mathematician '''[[Karl Weierstrass (nonfiction)|Karl Weierstrass]]''' formalized the definition of the [[Continuous function (nonfiction)|continuity of a function]], proved the intermediate value theorem and the Bolzano–Weierstrass theorem, and used the latter to study the properties of continuous functions on closed bounded intervals? | • ... that mathematician '''[[Karl Weierstrass (nonfiction)|Karl Weierstrass]]''' formalized the definition of the [[Continuous function (nonfiction)|continuity of a function]], proved the intermediate value theorem and the Bolzano–Weierstrass theorem, and used the latter to study the properties of continuous functions on closed bounded intervals? | ||
• ... that mathematician cryptographer, diplomat, translator, and alchemist [[Blaise de Vigenère (nonfiction)|Blaise de Vigenère]] an autokey cipher in (1586), and that the "Vigenère cipher", misattributed to de Vigenère in the 19th century, was in fact first described by [[Giovan Battista Bellaso (nonfiction)|Giovan Battista Bellaso]] in his 1553 book ''La cifra del. Sig. Giovan Battista Bellaso''? | |||
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• ... that physician, astronomer, and mathematician Thābit ibn Qurra Thabit rejected the Peripatetic and Aristotelian notions of a "natural place" for each element, and that Thābit instead proposed a theory of motion in which both the upward and downward motions are caused by weight, with the order of the universe a result of two competing attractions (jadhb): one of these being "between the sublunar and celestial elements", and the other being "between all parts of each element separately"?
• ... that mathematician Karl Weierstrass formalized the definition of the continuity of a function, proved the intermediate value theorem and the Bolzano–Weierstrass theorem, and used the latter to study the properties of continuous functions on closed bounded intervals?
• ... that mathematician cryptographer, diplomat, translator, and alchemist Blaise de Vigenère an autokey cipher in (1586), and that the "Vigenère cipher", misattributed to de Vigenère in the 19th century, was in fact first described by Giovan Battista Bellaso in his 1553 book La cifra del. Sig. Giovan Battista Bellaso?