Subject: Re: [HM] L'Hopital, Pythagoras, Ptolemy and Hilbert
From: Julio Gonzalez Cabillon (jgc@adinet.com.uy)
Date: Sat Mar 25 2000 - 13:47:59 EST
At 03:31 p.m. 16/03/00 -0500, Andrew Bowering typed:
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| I am in my final year of a degree course in Mathematics and in need of
| big help. I have noticed the wealth of knowledge out there amongst
| you but now I need to tap into this knowledge. Firstly I need some
| examples of results which are not named after the people who derived
| them - ie - L'Hopital's rule, found by his tutor Johann Bernoulli.
|
Mind the "Boyer's Law" in the history of mathematics:
"Mathematical formulas and theorems are usually
not named after their original discoverers."
Best regards,
Julio Gonzalez Cabillon
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