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Today in Math History for April 24

• April 24, 1754 Edward Waring is elected a fellow at Magdalene College.
• April 24, 1899 Oscar Zariski is born in Kobrin.
• April 24, 1930 Henry Ernest Dudeney dies in Lewes.

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What we want for Today in Math History are the dates the most important conjectures in number theory were posed and the dates the most important theorems were proven. Unfortunately, most such dates are not written down anywhere.

So we'll settle for the dates letters about such conjectures and theorems were written (e.g., Goldbach's letter to Euler about numbers as the sum of two or three primes).

Also good are amusing tidbits, like the mathematician who noticed his age was the square root of the year.

But the bread and butter of Today in Math History will have to be the birth and death dates of famous mathematicians. (However, we won't put the birth dates of famous living mathematicians even if those dates are common knowledge).

The Gregorian calendar was not adopted all at once throughout the world: England, for example, adopted it after Newton's lifetime (hence Newton's birthday was on Christmas, as far as he was concerned). China and the Soviet Union were the last horses to cross the gate. When it makes sense to do so, we will include an item twice, firstly on the date acknowledged by the people involved, and secondly on the "corrected" date given by our modern history textbooks.

Perhaps in the future we will not repeat the month and day for the items in each entry (e.g., January 1, 1680; January 1, 1725; January 1, 1809, etc.), but for now we will write them out for each item as a mean to guard against errors.