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November 16th
| 1823 | Birthdate of Jacob Amsler, inventor of the polar planimeter, a device for measuring areas enclosed by plane curves, which he invented in 1854.
More information about: Jacob Amsler The Planimeter |
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| 1835 | Eugenio Beltrami born in Cremona, Italy. In 1868 he showed the consistency of non-Euclidean geometry by providing a model of it on the pseudosphere, a surface with constant negative curvature.
More information about: Eugenio Beltrami Pseudospheres |
| 1886 | Marcel Riesz born in Gyor, Hungary. He wrote mathematical papers in five languages, German, Hungarian, French, Swedish, and English, and was the younger brother of Frigyes Riesz of Riesz Representation Theorem fame.
More information about: Marcel Riesz Frigyes (Frederic) Riesz |
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