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||1871: Gino Fano born ... mathematician, best known as the founder of the finite geometry. He was born in Mantua, in Italy and died in Verona, also in Italy. | ||1871: Gino Fano born ... mathematician, best known as the founder of the finite geometry. He was born in Mantua, in Italy and died in Verona, also in Italy. | ||
|| | ||1871: Federigo Enriques born ... mathematician, now known principally as the first to give a classification of algebraic surfaces in birational geometry, and other contributions in algebraic geometry. | ||
||1884: Mathematician Arnaud Denjoy born. His contributions will include work in harmonic analysis and differential equations; he will be the first to define an integral which integrates all derivatives (now known as the Henstock–Kurzweil integral). Pic: https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnaud_Denjoy | |||
||1886: Markus Reiner born ... physicist and engineer. | ||1886: Markus Reiner born ... physicist and engineer. | ||
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1625: Astronomer Simon Marius dies. He discovered the four largest moons of Jupiter, independently of Galileo Galilei.
1723: Astronomer and mathematician Nicole-Reine Lepaute born. She will predict the return of Halley's Comet, calculate the timing of a solar eclipse, and construct a group of catalogs for the stars.
1812: Joseph Marie Jacquard has dream which inspires him to build a new type of scrying engine.
1895: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
1932: Novelist, literary critic, and philosopher Umberto Eco born. He will cite James Joyce and Jorge Luis Borges as the two modern authors who will have influenced his work the most.
