A linguist would be shocked to learn that if a set is not closed this does not mean that it is open, or again that "E is dense in E" does not mean the same thing as "E is dense in itself."
A Mathematician's Miscellany, Methuen Co. Ltd., 1953.
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| 1802 | United States Military Academy established at West Point, New York. Charles Davies, a noted mathematics textbook writer, taught there from 1816 to 1837.
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| 1821 | Heinrich Eduard Heine, of Heine-Borel Theorem fame, born in Berlin, Germany.
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| 1846 | Magnus Gustaf Mittag-Leffler born in Stockholm, Sweden. After studying with Weierstrass in Berlin and then teaching in Helsinki, Finland, for five years, he returned home to Stockholm, where he founded and ran the international journal Acta Mathematica.
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