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Important events from the history of math that happened on this day:
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January 27th
| 1832 | Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, mathematics professor and author of Alice in Wonderland under the pen name Lewis Carroll, was born in England on this day.
More information about: Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) |
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| 1860 | Janos Bolyai, of non-Euclidean geometry fame, died in what is now Tirgu-Mures, Romania, and was then part of Hungary. Of his discoveries in non-Euclidean geometry, he wrote to his father Farkas, "From nothing I have created another entirely new world."
More information about: Janos Bolyai Farkas Bolyai Non-Euclidean Geometry |
| 1972 | Richard Courant, the applied mathematician responsible for the finite-element method and for the Courant Institute at New York University, died in New Rochelle, New York, on this day.
More information about: Richard Courant |
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