Template:Today in Math History for August 16

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August 16, 1636 Étienne Pascal and Gilles Roberval write a letter to Pierre de Fermat regarding a curve now known as the limaçon de Pascal.
August 16, 1705 Jakob Bernoulli dies in Basel.
August 16, 1808 In Algiers, François Arago boards a boat headed to Marseille, hoping to resume his work measuring the meridian.
August 16, 1821 Arthur Cayley is born in Richmond, Surrey.

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