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September 8th
| 1584 | Gregorius Saint Vincent born in Bruges, Belgium. Although he is best known today for integrating the function 1/x to obtain a logarithm function, he would not have used any of these terms.
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| 1588 | Marin Mersenne born in Maine, France. An accomplished number theorist, he was even better known for his correspondence with the leading mathematicians of his day.
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| 1882 | Joseph Liouville died in Paris, France. His transcendental number was the decimal number 0.11000100... with a 1 in the 1st, 2nd, 6th, 24th, ... , n!th, ... places and 0s elsewhere. He worked in many fields, including geometry, analysis, and number theory.
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