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Important events from the history of math that happened on this day:
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August 26th
| 1349 | Thomas Bradwardine felled by the plague in London, England. The Archbishop of Canterbury, he was also a mathematical physicist who studied the concept of motion.
More information about: Thomas Bradwardine |
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| 1572 | Peter Ramus murdered by hired assassins, during the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in Paris, France. He was an early opponent of the teachings of Aristotle.
More information about: Peter Ramus Aristotle |
| 1728 | Johann Lambert, who proved the irrationality of the number pi in 1768, was born in Muelhausen, Alsace, now in France, on this day.
More information about: Johann Heinrich Lambert |
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