Prime Curios!: 1777

1777
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Carl Friedrich Gauss, "The Prince of Mathematicians," was born in 1777.

In 1777 the symbol i for imaginary unit was first used by Leonhard Euler, in a memoir. [Gevisier]

Johann Lambert, the first to prove that was irrational, died in the prime year 1777.

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