Template:Are You Sure/October 11

• ... that mathematician, physicist, physician, and philosopher Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus invented the Tschirnhaus transformation, by which certain intermediate terms are removed from a given algebraic equation?

• ... that mathematician and physicist Vito Volterra (3 May 1860 – 11 October 1940) joined the opposition to the Fascist regime of Benito Mussolini in 1922; that in 1931 Volterra was one of only 12 out of 1,250 professors who refused to take a mandatory oath of loyalty; and that Volterra wrote: "Empires die, but Euclid’s theorems keep their youth forever."?