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||1777 – Johann Andreas Segner, Slovak-German mathematician, physicist, and physician (b. 1704) | ||1777 – Johann Andreas Segner, Slovak-German mathematician, physicist, and physician (b. 1704) | ||
||1781 – Bernard Bolzano, Czech mathematician and philosopher (d. 1848) | ||1781 – Bernard Bolzano, Czech mathematician and philosopher (d. 1848) - Bernard Bolzano (/bɒlˈtsɑːnoʊ/; German: [bɔlˈtsaːno]; born Bernardus Placidus Johann Nepomuk Bolzano; 5 October 1781 – 18 December 1848)[11] was a Bohemian mathematician, logician, philosopher, theologian and Catholic priest of Italian extraction, also known for his antimilitarist views. | ||
||1869 – During construction, the Hennepin Island tunnel has a limestone cap breached and the rushing water breaks large chunks of land away and the St. Anthony Falls are nearly destroyed. | ||1869 – During construction, the Hennepin Island tunnel has a limestone cap breached and the rushing water breaks large chunks of land away and the St. Anthony Falls are nearly destroyed. | ||
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1985: Mathematician Karl Menger dies. He worked on mathematics of algebras, algebra of geometries, curve and dimension theory, game theory, and social sciences.