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Re: Prof. Strogatz, 18.04
solo26@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (solo26@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sat Aug 1 17:21:45 1992
(I'm a little behind:)
> "You might think that Cauchy's Theorem was discovered by Cauchy,
> but you know in mathematics that can't be true, because all
> proofs were done by Gauss."
Someone tell him he's very wrong. If you read some section in the 18.03
textbook, it says something to the effect of:
"This theorem is called ______'s Theorem, as it is traditional to name a
thereom after the first person after Euler to discover it."
"kms
