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The year 1739 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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Mathematics
- Leonhard Euler solves the general homogeneous linear ordinary differential equation with constant coefficients.
- Euler invents the tonnetz (German for "tone-network"), a conceptual lattice diagram that shows a two-dimensional tonal pitch space created by the network of relationships between musical pitches in just intonation.[1]
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Deaths
- April 19 - Nicholas Saunderson, English scientist and mathematician (b. 1682)
References
- ^ Derbyshire, John (Spring 2007). "Euler's Constancy". The Wilson Quarterly. Euler's publication: Tentamen novae theoriae musicae.
