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Important events from the history of math that happened on this day:
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February 18th
| 3102 B.C. | The Kali Yuga began, according to the Indian mathematician Aryabhata (c. 500 CE). He believed all astronomical phenomena were periodic, with period 4,320,000 = 20 x 60-cubed years, and that all planets had mean longitude zero on this date.
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| 1404 | Leone Battista Alberti, noted architect who contributed to the study of perspective, was born in Genoa, Italy, on this day. He took up the study of mathematics for relaxation.
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| 1851 | Carl Jacobi, best known for his work on elliptic functions and differential equations, died in Berlin on this day.
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| 1879 | "I will do the same for the young women that I do for the young men. I shall take pleasure in giving gratuitous instruction to any person whom I find competent to receive it. I give no elementary instruction, but only in the higher mathematics." - Benjamin Peirce to Arthur V. Gilman, president of Harvard, on this day
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| 1899 | Norwegian mathematician Sophus Lie, of Lie group and Lie algebra fame, died in Kristiania, Norway, on this day.
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