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Important events from the history of math that happened on this day:
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November 3rd
| 1832 | Janos Bolyai claimed, "From nothing I have created another entirely new world," in a letter to his father Farkas telling him of his work on non-Euclidean geometry.
More information about: Janos Bolyai Farkas Bolyai Non-Euclidean Geometry |
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| 1867 | Wilhelm Kutta born in Upper Silesia (now Poland). Primarily an engineer, he is best known in mathematics for the Runge-Kutta numerical methods for solving differential equations.
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| 1906 | Carl B. Boyer, historian of mathematics, born in Hellertown, Pennsylvania. Besides his general history of mathematics, he is best known for his books on the history of analytic geometry and the history of calculus.
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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