On This Day ...
Important events from the history of math that happened on this day:
Choose a day and month and click the button to see events from history for that day.
July 5th
| 1687 | Halley wrote to Newton, informing Newton that his Principia was finally published.
More information about: Edmond Halley Isaac Newton |
|---|---|
| 1698 | Johann Bernoulli defined the term function in a letter to Leibniz. Leibniz had coined the term.
More information about: Johann Bernoulli Gottfried Leibniz Functions |
| 1932 | Rene Baire died in Chambery, France. Baire helped generalize analysis from functions to infinite sets.
More information about: Rene Baire |
| 1942 | Oskar Bolza died in Freiburg, Germany. Bolza worked on function theory, integral equations, and calculus of variations.
More information about: Oskar Bolza |
For more information, click on any of the links provided.