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Gauss, Karl Friedrich (1777-1855)

Finally, two days ago, I succeeded - not on account of my hard efforts, but by the grace of the Lord. Like a sudden flash of lightning, the riddle was solved. I am unable to say what was the conducting thread that connected what I previously knew with what made my success possible.

In H. Eves Mathematical Circles Squared, Boston: Prindle, Weber and Schmidt, 1972.

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1832 Janos Bolyai claims, "From nothing I have created another entirely new world" in a letter to his father Farkas when he told of his work on non-Euclidean geometry.

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Non-Euclidean Geometry
1906 Carl B. Boyer, historian of mathematics, born.

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1957 Launch of Sputnik 2, carrying the dog, Laika, the first living creature to orbit the Earth.

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