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• ... that mathematician and physicist '''[[Leonhard Euler (nonfiction)|Leonhard Euler]]''' (15 April 1707 – 18 September 1783) made pioneering discoveries in many branches of mathematics, and that Euler introduce much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, such as the notion of a mathematical function? | • ... that mathematician and physicist '''[[Leonhard Euler (nonfiction)|Leonhard Euler]]''' (15 April 1707 – 18 September 1783) made pioneering discoveries in many branches of mathematics, and that Euler introduce much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, such as the notion of a mathematical function? | ||
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• ... that mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler (15 April 1707 – 18 September 1783) made pioneering discoveries in many branches of mathematics, and that Euler introduce much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, such as the notion of a mathematical function?
• ... that astronomer and mathematician Peder Horrebow (14 May 1679 – 15 April 1764) invented a way to determine a place's latitude from the stars?
• ... that Prometheus & Louise is a 2021 American alien-human buddy road film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Geena Davis as Prometheus and Susan Sarandon as Louise, two friends who embark on a road trip which ends up in unforeseen non-Euclidean space?
• ... that mathematician Vera Faddeeva (20 September 1906 - 15 April 1983) pioneered linear algebra; and that her Computational Methods of Linear Algebra (1950) was widely acclaimed?
• ... that physicist Johannes Bosscha Jr. (18 November 1831 – 15 April 1911) researched galvanic polarization and the rapidity of sound waves; and that Bosscha was one of the first (1855) to suggest the possibility of sending two messages simultaneously over the same wire?