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October 14th
| 1801 | Joseph Plateau born in Brussels, Belgium. The Plateau Problems on surfaces of minimal area are named after him.
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| 1882 | Future Irish president Eamon de Valera born in New York City, USA. President of the Republic of Ireland from 1959 to 1973 and active in opposing British rule and establishing the Republic from 1913 onward, he had been a popular mathematics teacher and promising mathematics researcher. He retained a lifelong interest in mathematics.
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| 2010 | Benoit Mandelbrot, coiner of the term "fractal", died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. His book, The Fractal Geometry of Nature (1982), not only popularized fractals, but helped convince mathematicians and scientists of their importance.
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