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October 26th
| 1849 | Georg Frobenius born in Berlin-Charlottenburg, Prussia. He would develop representation and character theory for groups.
More information about: Ferdinand Georg Frobenius |
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| 1893 | Karl Pearson's first statistical publication was the first in a series of 18 papers titled "Mathematical Contributions to the Theory of Evolution."
More information about: Karl Pearson |
| 1930 | Walter Feit born in Vienna, Austria. He and John Thompson proved that all groups of odd order are solvable and published their results in a 250-page paper that comprised one entire issue of the Pacific Mathematics Journal.
More information about: Walter Feit John Thompson |
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