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Frankland, W.B.

Whereas at the outset geometry is reported to have concerned herself with the measurement of muddy land, she now handles celestial as well as terrestrial problems: she has extended her domain to the furthest bounds of space.

Hodder and Stoughton, The Story of Euclid. 1901.

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October 7th

1601	Baptisimal date of Florimond de Beaune. His fame rests on the two brief notes published in Schooten's Latin edition of Descartes (1649 and 1659-60). In the second of these he raised the first inverse tangent problem: determine a curve from a property of its tangent. More information about: Florimond de Beaune
1885	Niels Bohr born in Copenhagen, Denmark. The famous physicist studied atomic structure and radiation. More information about: Niels Bohr
1893	Khayyam's tree transplanted. When the poet/mathematician Omar Khayyam died in 1123 he was buried in a spot where the north wind would scatter rose petals over his grave. On this date a rose tree started from those on Khayyam's grave was transplanted to the grave of Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883), the Irish translator who made Khayyam's poetry so famous in modern times. For Khayyam's geometric solution to the cubic, see Howard Eves' Great Moments in Mathematics (before 1650). More information about: Omar Khayyam Edward Fitzgerald

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