Mathematics
- Pierre Fatou defines the Mandelbrot set.
- Oswald Veblen proves the Jordan curve theorem.
- Martin Kutta describes the popular fourth-order Runge-Kutta method.
- James Cullen, S.J., begins the study of Cullen numbers.
- Emanuel Lasker proves the Lasker–Noether theorem for the special case of polynomial rings.
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