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September 12th
| 1876 | Johns Hopkins University, the first true graduate school in the U.S., formally opened its doors with an address---and without the benefit of a prayer---by the evolutionist T. H. Huxley. A Presbyterian minister wrote, "It is bad enough to invite Huxley. It were better to have asked God to be present. It would have been absurd to ask them both."
More information about: Johns Hopkins University Thomas Henry Huxley |
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| 1877 | George Hamel born in Duren, Germany. "He is perhaps best known for the Hamel basis ... for the real numbers as a vector space over the rational numbers," according to the source below.
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| 1918 | Maxime Bocher died in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He gave the first series of AMS Colloquium Lectures in 1896 in linear differential equations and their applications.
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| 1935 | Institute of Mathematical Statistics founded in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
More information about: Institute of Mathematical Statistics |
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