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  • 5-12-1364

    Uniwersytet Jagiellonski founded. Copernicus was a student at this university in Krakow, Poland in 1492.

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    Nicolaus Copernicus

  • 5-12-1820

    Florence Nightingale, English nurse and pioneering statistician, born in Florence, Italy.

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    Florence Nightingale

  • 5-12-1845

    Henri Brocard born in Vignot, France. He published a two-volume catalog of plane curves and their properties in 1897-99.

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    Henri Brocard

  • 5-12-1857

    Oskar Bolza born in southern Germany. After studying with Weierstrass and Klein, and realizing the difficulties of obtaining a suitable position in Germany, he came to the U.S., where he played an important role in the development of mathematics at Johns Hopkins, Clark and Chicago.

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    Oskar Bolza