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• ... that mathematician and physicist '''[[Thomas Fincke (nonfiction)|Thomas Fincke]]''' introduced the modern names of the trigonometric functions ''tangent'' and ''secant'' in his book ''Geometria rotundi'' (1583)?
• ... that mathematician and physicist '''[[Thomas Fincke (nonfiction)|Thomas Fincke]]''' introduced the modern names of the trigonometric functions ''tangent'' and ''secant'' in his book ''Geometria rotundi'' (1583)?<br>
 
• ... that objections to '''[[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|Georg Cantor]]''''s work were occasionally fierce: Henri Poincaré referred to Cantor's ideas as a "grave disease" infecting the discipline of mathematics, and Leopold Kronecker's public opposition and personal attacks included describing Cantor as a "scientific charlatan", a "renegade" and a "corrupter of youth"?<br>
• ... that objections to '''[[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|Georg Cantor]]''''s work were occasionally fierce: Henri Poincaré referred to Cantor's ideas as a "grave disease" infecting the discipline of mathematics, and Leopold Kronecker's public opposition and personal attacks included describing Cantor as a "scientific charlatan", a "renegade" and a "corrupter of youth"?
 
• ... that '''[[Jacob Bernoulli (nonfiction)|Jacob Bernoulli]]''' derived the first version of the law of large numbers in his work ''Ars Conjectandi''?
• ... that '''[[Jacob Bernoulli (nonfiction)|Jacob Bernoulli]]''' derived the first version of the law of large numbers in his work ''Ars Conjectandi''?

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• ... that mathematician and physicist Thomas Fincke introduced the modern names of the trigonometric functions tangent and secant in his book Geometria rotundi (1583)?

• ... that objections to Georg Cantor's work were occasionally fierce: Henri Poincaré referred to Cantor's ideas as a "grave disease" infecting the discipline of mathematics, and Leopold Kronecker's public opposition and personal attacks included describing Cantor as a "scientific charlatan", a "renegade" and a "corrupter of youth"?

• ... that Jacob Bernoulli derived the first version of the law of large numbers in his work Ars Conjectandi?

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