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File:Jacob Bernoulli.jpg|link=Jacob Bernoulli (nonfiction)|1705: Mathematician [[Jacob Bernoulli (nonfiction)|Jacob Bernoulli]] dies. He discovered the fundamental mathematical constant ''e'', and made important contributions to the field of probability. | File:Jacob Bernoulli.jpg|link=Jacob Bernoulli (nonfiction)|1705: Mathematician [[Jacob Bernoulli (nonfiction)|Jacob Bernoulli]] dies. He discovered the fundamental mathematical constant ''e'', and made important contributions to the field of probability. | ||
||Đuro Kurepa (b. August 16, 1907) was a Yugoslav mathematician. | ||Đuro Kurepa (b. August 16, 1907) was a Yugoslav mathematician. Pic. | ||
||1744 – Pierre Méchain, French astronomer and surveyor (d. 1804) | ||1744 – Pierre Méchain, French astronomer and surveyor (d. 1804) | ||
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1650: Monk, cosmographer, and cartographer Vincenzo Coronelli born. He will gain fame for his atlases and globes; some of the globes will be very large and highly detailed.
1694: Mathematician, astronomer, and crime-fighter Christiaan Huygens reveals in autobiography that he uses statistical analysis and games of chance to catch math criminals in the act.
1705: Mathematician Jacob Bernoulli dies. He discovered the fundamental mathematical constant e, and made important contributions to the field of probability.
1821: Mathematician and academic Arthur Cayley born. He will be the first to define the concept of a group in the modern way, as a set with a binary operation satisfying certain laws.
1899: Chemist and academic Robert Bunsen dies. He investigated emission spectra of heated elements, and discovered caesium (in 1860) and rubidium (in 1861) with the physicist Gustav Kirchhoff.
2017: Researchers publish new evidence that "suicide-by-Ultravore" is on the rise.