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June 20th
| 1788 | George Washington, thanking Nicholas Pike for the gift of his Systems of Arithmetic: "The science of figures, to a certain degree, is not only indispensably requisite in every walk of civilized life, but the investigation of mathematical truths accustoms the mind to method and correctness in reasoning, and is an employment peculiarly worthy of rational beings."
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| 1800 | Abraham Kaestner, teacher of Gauss and of Farkas Bolyai, died in Gottingen, Germany. He interested these two men directly, along with Farkas' son Janos Bolyai and Lobachevsky indirectly, in Euclid's parallel postulate.
More information about: Abraham Gotthelf Kaestner Johann Carl Friederich Gauss Farkas Bolyai Janos Bolyai Nikolai Lobachevsky |
| 1943 | Edward Van Vleck died in Madison, Wisconsin. He worked in function theory and differential equations and, in 1911, kept the Chicago contingent of the early AMS from breaking away from the national organization.
More information about: Edward Van Vleck |
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