Ramble, Part 12: Italian Interlude

Precedence quarrels - who came up with an idea first - are nothing new in mathematics; the Newton-Leibniz dispute over the discovery of calculus is probably the most famous. But the first such - at least, the first one I know of - has some interesting aspects that I'd like to discuss.

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Birthday

Happy birthday, pmrabble. May your troubles be fleeting and your pleasures enduring.