The pigeonhole principle, two centuries before Dirichlet (Q483560)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6381167
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6381167 |
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The pigeonhole principle, two centuries before Dirichlet (English)
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17 December 2014
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It is pointed out that what is nowadays famous as the ``pigeonhole principle'' was already (implicitly) mentioned by the French Jesuit Jean Leurechon [Selectæ propositiones in tota sparsim mathematica pulcherrimæ, Gasparem Bernardum (1622)].
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