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Important events from the history of math that happened on this day:
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September 2nd
| 1808 | Gauss wrote Wolfgang Bolyai: "It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment."
More information about: Carl Friedrich Gauss Farkas Wolfgang Bolyai |
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| 1841 | Paul Matthieu Hermann Laurent, who developed statistical formulas for the calculation of actuarial tables and studied heat conduction, was born in Luxembourg on this day.
More information about: Hermann Laurent |
| 1958 | The National Defense Education Act was passed by the US Congress in response to the Soviet Union's Sputnik space launch (October 4, 1957). The Act appropriated $840 million to improve the teaching of mathematics, science, and foreign languages.
More information about: National Defense Education Act Sputnik |
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