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September 11th

1798 Franz Ernst Neumann born in a part of Germany that is now in the Czech Republic. He formulated the law of electromagnetic induction.

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Electromagnetic Induction
1831 Carl Jacobi appointed professor. After a four hour disputation in Latin, Jacobi was appointed professor at the University of Konigsberg. While there he inaugurated what was then a complete novelty in mathematics: research seminars for the more advanced students and interested colleagues.

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1890 Felice Casorati died in Casteggio, Italy. He is best known for the Casorati-Weierstrass Theorem on singularities of analytic functions.

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Karl Weierstrass

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