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  • August 9, 1853 Rudolf Lipschitz earns his doctorate degree.
  • August 9, 1874 Georg Cantor marries Vally Guttmann.
  • August 9, 1986 Serge Lang writes to Goro Shimura and André Weil seeking corroboration for Jean-Pierre Serre's claim that Weil, not Taniyama, conjectured all elliptic curves are modular (a fact that will become crucial in proving Fermat's conjecture).