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February 3rd
| 1692 | Abraham de la Pryme recorded in his diary that Newton had a fire in his study that destroyed the manuscript of his Optics: "every one thought he would have run mad, he was so troubled thereat that he was not himself for a month after."
More information about: Isaac Newton Diary of Abraham de la Pryme |
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| 1893 | Gaston Julia born in Algeria. The French mathematician is best known for his namesake Julia set. Besides having been "one of the forefathers of modern dynamical systems theory," he was the author of 30 books on various types of mathematics (O'Connor and Robertson, MacTutor Archive).
More information about: Gaston Julia |
| 1898 | Topologist P. Urysohn born in Odessa, Ukraine. He would die young, drowning while swimming in the sea during a tour of France.
More information about: Pavel Urysohn |
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