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||Christoph Gudermann (d. September 25, 1852) was a German mathematician noted for introducing the Gudermannian function and the concept of uniform convergence
||Christoph Gudermann (d. September 25, 1852) was a German mathematician noted for introducing the Gudermannian function and the concept of uniform convergence


||1866 – Thomas Hunt Morgan, American biologist, geneticist, and embryologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1945).
||Thomas Hunt Morgan (b. September 25, 1866) was an American evolutionary biologist, geneticist, embryologist, and science author who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1933 for discoveries elucidating the role that the chromosome plays in heredity. Pic.


||Stefan Mazurkiewicz (b. 25 September 1888) was a Polish mathematician who worked in mathematical analysis, topology, and probability. He will be known for the Hahn–Mazurkiewicz theorem, a basic result on curves prompted by the phenomenon of space-filling curves. Pic.
||Stefan Mazurkiewicz (b. 25 September 1888) was a Polish mathematician who worked in mathematical analysis, topology, and probability. He will be known for the Hahn–Mazurkiewicz theorem, a basic result on curves prompted by the phenomenon of space-filling curves. Pic.

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  • 1644: Astronomer and instrument maker Ole Rømer born. He will make the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light.

    1644: Astronomer and instrument maker Ole Rømer born. He will make the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light.

  • 1789: The United States Congress passes twelve amendments to the United States Constitution: The Congressional Apportionment Amendment (which was never ratified), the Congressional Compensation Amendment, and the ten that are known as the Bill of Rights.

    1789: The United States Congress passes twelve amendments to the United States Constitution: The Congressional Apportionment Amendment (which was never ratified), the Congressional Compensation Amendment, and the ten that are known as the Bill of Rights.

  • 1819: Mathematician and Anglican theologian George Salmon born. He will work in algebraic geometry for two decades, then devote the last forty years of his life to theology.

    1819: Mathematician and Anglican theologian George Salmon born. He will work in algebraic geometry for two decades, then devote the last forty years of his life to theology.

  • 1845: Judge Havelock With Glass is "a reasonably accurate depiction of events as I experienced them," according to the Judge.

    1845: Judge Havelock With Glass is "a reasonably accurate depiction of events as I experienced them," according to the Judge.

  • 1893: Mathematician and statistician Harald Cramér born. He will help found probability theory as a branch of mathematics, writing in 1926: "The probability concept should be introduced by a purely mathematical definition, from which its fundamental properties and the classical theorems are deduced by purely mathematical operations."

    1893: Mathematician and statistician Harald Cramér born. He will help found probability theory as a branch of mathematics, writing in 1926: "The probability concept should be introduced by a purely mathematical definition, from which its fundamental properties and the classical theorems are deduced by purely mathematical operations."

  • 1992: NASA launches the Mars Observer, a $511 million probe to Mars, in the first U.S. mission to the planet in 17 years. The probe will fail eleven months later.

    1992: NASA launches the Mars Observer, a $511 million probe to Mars, in the first U.S. mission to the planet in 17 years. The probe will fail eleven months later.

  • 2002: Steganographic analysis of Humpty Dumpty At Bat reveals previously unknown biography of Babe Ruth by Lewis Carroll.

    2002: Steganographic analysis of Humpty Dumpty At Bat reveals previously unknown biography of Babe Ruth by Lewis Carroll.

  • 2003: Journalist, writer, literary editor, and actor George Plimpton dies.

    2003: Journalist, writer, literary editor, and actor George Plimpton dies.

  • 2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars says that the twenty-fifth anniversary of the launch of the Mars Observer is a bittersweet event, because the spacecraft will be lost eleven months later.

    2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars says that the twenty-fifth anniversary of the launch of the Mars Observer is a bittersweet event, because the spacecraft will be lost eleven months later.

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