How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought independent of experience, is so admirably adapted to the objects of reality?
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December 12th
| 1832 | Ludwig Sylow, who proved the famous Sylow theorems of group theory in 1872, was born in Christiania (Oslo), Norway.
More information about: Peter Ludwig Sylow |
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| 1885 | J. J. Sylvester, in the middle of his inaugural lecture as Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford University, "refreshed" the audience with his sonnet "To a missing member of a family group of terms in an algebraical formula."
More information about: James Joseph Sylvester |
| 1901 | Guglielmo Marconi received the first transatlantic wireless communication, the three code dots signifying the letter "S". Already well known, Marconi, at age 27, became world-famous overnight.
More information about: Guglielmo Marconi The Invention of Radio |
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