Re: [HM] QED

Samuel S. Kutler (s-kutler@sjca.edu)
Tue, 17 Nov 1998 07:34:02 -0500 (EST)

Friends:

David Reed wrote

>3) Newton's Principia also has qed exclusively.

After Proposition VII of book one, since it is a problem, Newton writes Q E I
for that which was to have been found.

After theorems, Euclid writes

hoper edei deiksai,

which Sir Ivor Bulmer Thomas translates

which was to be proved,

and I translate

the very thing it was necessary to show.

Best wishes from Annapolis,

Sam Kutler