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August 16th
| 1705 | Jacob Bernoulli died in Basel, Switzerland. Also known as Jacques or James, he clarified and extended Leibniz's calculus, put probability theory on a much firmer foundation, and, perhaps most famously, quarreled with his younger brother Johann (also known as Jean or John).
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| 1821 | Arthur Cayley, the algebraist and geometer best known for his introduction of the abstract group concept, was born in Richmond, England, on this day.
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| 1837 | Joseph Marie de Tilly born in Ypres, Belgium. In 1899 he was dismissed from his teaching post at the Ecole Militaire for unduly emphasizing the scientific education of future officers and using the notions of the infinitely small and the differential.
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| 1966 | Smale awarded Fields Medal. Stephen Smale, University of California, Berkeley, received the Fields Medal at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Moscow for his work on dynamical systems.
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