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November 25th
| 1658 | Prize committee for Pascal's cycloid problems decided not to give the prize of sixty Spanish gold doubloons to anyone. The problems were announced on Oct. 1, 1658.
More information about: Blaise Pascal Cycloids |
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| 1731 | Euler introduced the letter e as the base for natural logarithms, writing in a letter, "e denotat numerum, cuius logarithmus hyperbolicus = 1," though he may have used the notation in his manuscripts as early as 1727.
More information about: Leonhard Euler The number e Napier's e |
| 1907 | Warsaw Scientific Society held first general meeting. Among the 14 founders of the Society were the two mathematicians Samuel Dickstein (1851-1939) and Wladyslaw Gosiewski (1844-1911).
More information about: Warsaw Scientific Society Samuel Dickstein |
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