On This Day ...
Important events from the history of math that happened on this day:
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August 14th
| 1842 | Jean-Gaston Darboux, acclaimed as an excellent differential geometer and teacher, was born in Languedoc, France, on this day.
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| 1865 | Algebraic geometer Guido Castelnuovo, who, when Jewish students were barred from the state universities in the 1930s, organized courses for them, was born in Venice, Italy, on this day.
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| 1894 | The first summer meeting of the American Mathematical Society was held in one of the lecture-rooms of the Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn, New York, August 14-15. Only ten papers were presented!
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