On This Day ...
Important events from the history of math that happened on this day:
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January 22nd
| 1874 | Leonard Eugene Dickson, prolific number theorist and author of three of four anticipated volumes on the history of number theory, was born in Independence, Iowa, on this day.
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| 1889 | Oskar Bolza gave his first lecture to a non-German audience. At Johns Hopkins University he gave twenty lectures "on the theory of substitution groups and its application to algebraic equations." This was the first course on Galois theory in this country. It was published in 1891 in the American Journal of Mathematics.
More information about: Oskar Bolza Galois Theory |
| 1922 | Camille Jordan, whose accomplishments include the Jordan curve theorem, the Jordan canonical form, and founding the theory of finite groups, died in Paris, France. on this day.
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| 1984 | Apple introduced the Macintosh computer during a 60-second commercial aired during the Super Bowl. (The Super Bowl is the American football championship game and its television broadcast commands the highest fees for commercial slots.)
More information about: Apple History |
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