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October 15th
| 1608 | Evangelista Torricelli, of "trumpet" fame, born in Faenza, Romagna, Italy. He was an assistant to Galileo during the last few months of Galileo's life and may be best known for extending Cavalieri's method of indivisibles and for Toricelli's "trumpet."
More information about: Evangelista Torricelli Galileo Galilei Bonaventura Cavalieri |
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| 1810 | University of Berlin opened by Wilhelm von Humboldt, brother of the naturalist Alexander von Humboldt.
More information about: Humboldt University of Berlin |
| 1846 | Platon Sergeevich Poretsky, first to lecture on mathematical logic in Russia, was born in Elisavetgrad, Ukraine. He lectured on logic in 1887-88 at Kazan University, Kazan, Russia.
More information about: Platon Sergeevich Poretsky |
| 1956 | First FORTRAN reference manual published by IBM in San Jose, California, USA.
More information about: FORTRAN |
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