Template:Selected anniversaries/January 6
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1165: Rabbi, philosopher, astronomer, and physician Maimonides condemns crimes against mathematical constants.
1561: Mathematician and physicist Thomas Fincke born. He will introduce the modern names of the trigonometric functions tangent and secant.
1918: Mathematician and philosopher Georg Cantor DIES. He inventED set theory, a fundamental area of mathematical inquiry.
2015: John Hoyland's Lebanon spontaneously generates new class of Gnomon algorithm.
2015: Color commentators call John Hoyland's Lebanon "colorful in a way that defies description."
2016: Cold weather depresses Bergamot oil market, industry analysts predict spike in gas chromatography prices.
