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January 6th

1699 Newton wrote Flamsteed, probably alluding to Bernoulli's challenge of the brachistochrone problem, "I do not love ... to be dunned and teezed by forreigners about Mathematical things."

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Isaac Newton
The Brachistochrone Problem
1900 Frege wrote to Hilbert: "Suppose we know that the propositions (1) A is an intelligent being, (2) A is omnipresent, (3) A is omnipotent, together with all their consequences did not contradict one another; could we infer from this that there was an omnipotent, omnipresent, intelligent being?"

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Gottlob Frege
David Hilbert
1918 Georg Cantor died in Halle, Germany. Founder of set theory, his namesakes include the Cantor set and Cantor's diagonal argument.

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Georg Cantor

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