MacTutor History of Mathematics

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History Medieval

One Baghdad scholar gave us both 'algebra' and 'algorithm'

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Technology Computing & AI

Alan Turing, who imagined the modern computer, was born

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Albert Einstein was born

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Space Astrophysics

Astronomer Johannes Kepler was born

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Blaise Pascal, who built an early mechanical calculator, was born

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Charles Babbage, father of the computer, was born

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Isaac Newton is born (New Style January 4)

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Philosopher Rene Descartes was born

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The equals sign was born from a writer's impatience

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Euclid proved the primes never run out — 2,300 years ago

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