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File:Lewis Carroll.jpg|link=Lewis Carroll (nonfiction)|1898: Novelist, poet, and mathematician [[Lewis Carroll (nonfiction)|Lewis Carroll]] dies. He wrote ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'', and its sequel ''Through the Looking-Glass''. | File:Lewis Carroll.jpg|link=Lewis Carroll (nonfiction)|1898: Novelist, poet, and mathematician [[Lewis Carroll (nonfiction)|Lewis Carroll]] dies. He wrote ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'', and its sequel ''Through the Looking-Glass''. | ||
||1901 | File:Alfred Tarski 1968.jpg|link=Alfred Tarski (nonfiction)|1901: Mathematician and philosopher [[Alfred Tarski (nonfiction)|Alfred Tarski]] born. He will be a prolific author, contributing to model theory, metamathematics, algebraic logic, abstract algebra, topology, geometry, measure theory, mathematical logic, set theory, and analytic philosophy. | ||
File:Charles Hermite circa 1901.jpg|link=Charles Hermite (nonfiction)|1901: Mathematician [[Charles Hermite (nonfiction)|Charles Hermite]] dies. He did research on number theory, quadratic forms, invariant theory, orthogonal polynomials, elliptic functions, and algebra. | File:Charles Hermite circa 1901.jpg|link=Charles Hermite (nonfiction)|1901: Mathematician [[Charles Hermite (nonfiction)|Charles Hermite]] dies. He did research on number theory, quadratic forms, invariant theory, orthogonal polynomials, elliptic functions, and algebra. | ||
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1867: Artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres dies. He assumed the role of a guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style represented by his nemesis, Eugène Delacroix.
1874: Scientist and inventor Johann Philipp Reis dies. He invented the Reis Telephone.
1888: Artist, musician, author, and poet Edward Lear invents record number of witticisms.
1898: Novelist, poet, and mathematician Lewis Carroll dies. He wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass.
1901: Mathematician and philosopher Alfred Tarski born. He will be a prolific author, contributing to model theory, metamathematics, algebraic logic, abstract algebra, topology, geometry, measure theory, mathematical logic, set theory, and analytic philosophy.
1901: Mathematician Charles Hermite dies. He did research on number theory, quadratic forms, invariant theory, orthogonal polynomials, elliptic functions, and algebra.
1978: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic Kurt Gödel dies. His two incompleteness theorems had an immense impact upon scientific and philosophical thinking in the 20th century.