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November 3rd
| 1832 | Janos Bolyai claims, "From nothing I have created another entirely new world" in a letter to his father Farkas when he told of his work on non-Euclidean geometry.
More information about: Janos Bolyai Non-Euclidean Geometry |
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| 1906 | Carl B. Boyer, historian of mathematics, born.
More information about: Carl Benjamin Boyer |
| 1957 | Launch of Sputnik 2, carrying the dog, Laika, the first living creature to orbit the Earth.
More information about: Sputnik 2 |
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