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October 12th
| 1492 | Piero della Francesca, Italian painter and mathematician, died in Sansepolcro, Italy. He wrote the first treatise on the mathematics of perspective.
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| 1894 | George Bruce Halsted, president of the Texas Academy of Science, gave his inaugural address on "Original research and creative authorship: the essence of university teaching." A mathematician, he was J. J. Sylvester's first Ph.D. student at Johns Hopkins University.
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| 1929 | Edwin Abbott, author of Flatland, died in London, England. First published in 1884, the book was subtitled A romance of many dimensions, and its author given as A Square.
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