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January 6th
| 1699 | Newton wrote Flamsteed, probably alluding to Bernoulli's challenge of the brachistochrone problem, "I do not love ... to be dunned and teezed by forreigners about Mathematical things."
More information about: Isaac Newton The Brachistochrone Problem |
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| 1900 | Frege wrote to Hilbert: "Suppose we know that the propositions (1) A is an intelligent being, (2) A is omnipresent, (3) A is omnipotent, together with all their consequences did not contradict one another; could we infer from this that there was an omnipotent, omnipresent, intelligent being?"
More information about: Gottlob Frege David Hilbert |
| 1918 | Georg Cantor died in Halle, Germany. Founder of set theory, his namesakes include the Cantor set and Cantor's diagonal argument.
More information about: Georg Cantor |
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