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On this day in 1835 – March 12th – Canadian-American mathematician and astronomer Simon Newcomb was born.

Newcomb made important contributions to international timekeeping and other fields in applied mathematics such as economics and statistics. He was a professor at the United States Naval Observatory and at Johns Hopkins.

Mona Evans
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