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  • 5-2-1519

    Italian artist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci died in France. Given his artistic and mechanical talents, it is perhaps not surprising that he was interested in geometry.

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  • 5-2-1588

    Etienne Pascal born in Clermont, France. The Limacon of Pascal is named after him rather than after his famous son, Blaise Pascal.

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  • 5-2-1860

    D'Arcy Thompson, author of On Growth and Form, born in Edinburgh, Scotland. A biologist, he is best known to mathematicians for this book connecting mathematics and biology.

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