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  • 4-17-1761

    English mathematician and minister Thomas Bayes died. He did important early work on statistical inference.

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  • 4-17-1790

    Benjamin Franklin, American scientist, author, and statesman, died. In science, he is best known for his discoveries about electricity, and in recreational mathematics, for his interest in magic squares.

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  • 4-17-1853

    Arthur Moritz Schonflies born in Germany (now Poland). He discovered, independently of E. S. Fedorov, the 230 crystallographic groups and did early work in set theory and topology.

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    Crystallographic Topology