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Important events from the history of math that happened on this day:
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February 25th
| 1670 | Maria Kirch, first woman to discover a comet (in 1702), was born near Leipzig, Germany, on this day.
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| 1732 | Christopher Wren died. He was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral in London, which he had redesigned and rebuilt after the fire of 2 February 1766. His tomb contains the fitting epitaph, Si monumentum requiris, circumspice (If you seek a monument, look about you).
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| 1870 | Hermann Amandus Schwarz wrote his friend Georg Cantor a letter containing the first rigorous proof of the theorem that if the derivative of a function vanishes then the function is constant.
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