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April 1, 1863. Jacob Steiner died.-Referred to as "the greatest geometrical genius since the time of Apollonius,"Steiner treated geometry synthetically. A chair of geometry was created especially for him at Berlin.
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S., E. Calendar of Scientific Pioneers. Nature 107, 157 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/107157a0
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