Whoever ... proves his point and demonstrates the prime truth geometrically should be believed by all the world, for there we are captured.
J Heidrich (ed.) Albrecht Durer's schriftlicher Nachlass Berlin, 1920.
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October 5th
| 1713 | Denis Diderot born in France. His great Encyclopedie was published in 17 volumes of articles and 10 volumes of splendid plates from 1751 to 1766. D'Alembert was editor for mathematical subjects.
More information about: Denis Diderot Jean D'Alembert |
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| 1781 | Bernard Bolzano born in Prague, Bohemia (now Czech Republic). He first formulated and proved the Intermediate Value Theorem in his 1817 Rein analytischer Beweiss.
More information about: Bernard Bolzano Bolzano's Theorem (Intermediate Value Theorem) |
| 1861 | Thomas Little Heath born in Lincolnshire, England. His main interest was Greek mathematics. His Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements, published in 1908, is still in print by Dover.
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