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  • 5-6-1906

    Andre Weil born in Paris. The famed number theorist and algebraic geometer was a member of the Bourbaki.

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  • 5-6-1949

    EDSAC performed its first calculation. An early British computer, EDSAC stood for Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator.

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  • 5-6-1951

    Elie Cartan died in Paris. His pioneering work helped synthesize the fields of continuous groups, Lie algebras, differential equations, and geometry, according to the MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive.

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