Subject: Re: [HM] L'Hopital, Pythagoras, Ptolemy and Hilbert
From: Barry Cipra (cipra@microassist.com)
Date: Sat Mar 25 2000 - 19:20:24 EST
> From: Julio Gonzalez Cabillon <jgc@adinet.com.uy>
> Date: Sat, Mar 25, 2000, 12:47 PM
>
> Mind the "Boyer's Law" in the history of mathematics:
>
> "Mathematical formulas and theorems are usually
> not named after their original discoverers."
>
I'll ask the obvious question: Who is the original discover of
Boyer's Law?
Barry Cipra
cipra@microassist.com
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