Mathematicians Of The Day

25th October



On this day in 1713, Gottfried Leibniz, in a letter to Johann Bernoulli, observed that an alternating series whose terms monotonically decrease to zero in absolute value is convergent.

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Quotation of the day

From René Thom
If one must choose between rigour and meaning, I shall unhesitatingly choose the latter.