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Important events from the history of math that happened on this day:
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January 20th
| 1590 | Giovanni Battista Benedetti, who published on geometry with a compass of fixed opening, free fall motion, construction of sundials, perspective, and music, died on this day in Turin, Italy.
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| 1775 | Andre Marie Ampere, a mathematician, physicist, and chemist best known for his results on electricity and magnetism, was born in Lyon, France, on this day.
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| 1831 | Edward Routh, who became a prominent teacher and coach for the Cambridge Tripos and who contributed to classical mechanics, was born in Quebec, Canada, on this day.
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| 1834 | William Watson born in Nantucket, Massachusetts. In 1862, he earned his Ph.D. at the University of Jena, Germany, being the first American to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics at a foreign university. Later he taught at Harvard and MIT. In the same year Yale was the first American college to grant a Ph.D. in mathematics.
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