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  • 5-14-1761

    Thomas Simpson died in Market Bosworth, England. An early expert on Newton's calculus, he did not invent the rule named after him, Simpson's Rule, but he was responsible for the version of Newton's Method for approximating roots that we use today.

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  • 5-14-1832

    Rudolf Lipschitz born in Konigsberg. He worked in a variety of fields, ranging from algebraic number theory to analytical mechanics, but is best known for the 'Lipschitz condition' guaranteeing a unique solution to a certain kind of differential equation.

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  • 5-14-1863

    John Charles Fields born in Hamilton, Ontario. A career mathematics professor at University of Toronto, he created and funded the Fields Medals in mathematics, first awarded in 1936.

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  • 5-14-1893

    Eduard Kummer died in Berlin. Most famous for inventing the 'ideal number' or 'ideal' of a ring, he also was a popular teacher.

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    Ernst Eduard Kummer