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1894 : Norbert Wiener born

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1754 : The mathematics tutor Abraham de Moivresuccumbed, at the age of 87, to lethargy. He was sleeping twenty hours a day, and it became a joke that he slep a quarter of an hour more every day and would die when he slept the whole day through.

1875 : Johns Hopkins University offered J.J. Sylvester $5000 a year plus moving expenses to assume the math professorship. He set three conditions under which he would accept; The sum be paid in gold, the university provide a residence, and that he be allowed to appropriate student fees. Only the first was acceptable to the university, but Sylvester agreed when the offer was increased to $6000 in gold. Shortly after arriving he founded the American Journal of Mathematics. In 1883 he left to become Savilian professor of geometry at Oxford.