Mathematics
- June 16 - Bertrand Russell writes to Gottlob Frege informing him of the problem in naive set theory that will become known as Russell's paradox.
- Gyula Farkas publishes the first proof of Farkas' lemma.
- Henri Lebesgue introduces the theory of Lebesgue integration.
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