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Important events from the history of math that happened on this day:
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January 30th
| 1619 | Michelangelo Ricci, who in 1666 found the tangent lines to the parabolas of Fermat, was born in Rome, Italy, on this day.
More information about: Michelangelo Ricci |
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| 1755 | Nicolaus Fuss, secretary to Leonhard Euler during the last decade of Euler's life and a mathematician in his own right, was born in Basel, Switzerland, on this day. After Euler's death in 1783, Fuss continued to live in St. Petersburg, Russia, until his own death in 1826.
More information about: Nicolaus Fuss Leonhard Euler |
| 1897 | Mary Frances Winston elected to membership in the American Mathematical Society. The previous year she received her PhD at Gottingen, making her the first American woman to receive a PhD in mathematics at a German university.
More information about: Mary Frances Winston Newson |
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