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||1719: Abraham Gotthelf Kästner born ... mathematician and epigrammatist. | ||1719: Abraham Gotthelf Kästner born ... mathematician and epigrammatist. | ||
File:Hubert Gautier.jpg|link=Hubert Gautier (nonfiction)|1737: | File:Hubert Gautier.jpg|link=Hubert Gautier (nonfiction)|1737: Physician, mathematician, and engineer [[Hubert Gautier (nonfiction)|Hubert Gautier]] dies. He authored the first book on bridge building, ''Traité des Ponts'', in 1716, as well as books on roads, fortifications, antiquities, and a first manual for watercolor practitioners. | ||
||1783: Étienne Bézout dies ... mathematician and theorist. | ||1783: Étienne Bézout dies ... mathematician and theorist. |
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1737: Physician, mathematician, and engineer Hubert Gautier dies. He authored the first book on bridge building, Traité des Ponts, in 1716, as well as books on roads, fortifications, antiquities, and a first manual for watercolor practitioners.
1879: Mathematician and philosopher Hans Hahn born. He will make contributions to functional analysis, topology, set theory, the calculus of variations, real analysis, and order theory.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
1962: Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring is published, inspiring an environmental movement and the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
2017: The well-known illustration Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery sells for seven million dollars at charity benefit for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.