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||1838 – Paul Mauser, German weapon designer, designed the Gewehr 98 (d. 1914) | ||1838 – Paul Mauser, German weapon designer, designed the Gewehr 98 (d. 1914) | ||
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||1850 – Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician and academic (d. 1919) | ||1850 – Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician and academic (d. 1919) | ||
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1831: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Sophie Germain dies. Her work on Fermat's Last Theorem provided a foundation for mathematicians exploring the subject for hundreds of years after.
1880: Mathematician and academic Carl Wilhelm Borchardt dies. He contributed to arithmetic-geometric mean theory, continuing work by Gauss and Lagrange.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
1975: Mathematician and physicist G. I. Taylor dies. He made major contributions to fluid dynamics and wave theory.
2010: Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden "inspired a generation of cryptographers," says Niles Cartouchian (1900s).