whom was the mathematician that died on a Valentines day and what was the major item that he was known for?

Answer 1

1744 : Hadley: was an English instrument maker who improved the Gregorian reflecting telescope and invented the quadrant for navigation.

1894 : Catalan: Catalan was a Belgian mathematician who defined the numbers called after him, while considering the solution of the problem of dissecting a polygon into triangles by means of non-intersecting diagonals

1943 : Hilbert: Hilbert's work in geometry had the greatest influence in that area after Euclid. A systematic study of the axioms of Euclidean geometry led Hilbert to propose 21 such axioms and he analyzed their significance. He made contributions in many areas of mathematics and physics.

2001 : Wielandt: worked on finite groups and on finite and infinite permutation groups.

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Answer 2

Professor Julius P. Numbskull. He made the discovery that...

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