Template:Today in Math History for August 28

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August 28, 1742 Leonhard Euler writes a letter to Christian Goldbach mentioning the identity $4x^{4}+1=(2x^{2}-2x+1)(2x^{2}+2x+1)$ (Léon Aurifeuille will rediscover a special case in the following century, see Aurifeuillian factorizations).
August 28, 1857 James Clerk Maxwell writes a letter to Lewis Campbell sketching some thoughts on Saturn's ring. He will go on to write a paper on the topic which George Airy will deem "one of the most remarkable applications of mathematics to physics."
August 28, 1867 Maxime Bôchet is born in Boston, Massachusetts.
August 28, 1880 Max Noether marries Ida Amalia Kaufmann. (Their daughter Emmy Noether was born about a year and a half later, she would go on to become a famous mathematician and improve on some of her father's work).

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