Dirichlet's Box Principle/Historical Note

Historical Note on Pigeonhole Principle
The Pigeonhole Principle appeared in print as early as $1622$ in by.

It also appears, in greater detail, in the $1624$ work by "", also commonly attributed to.

However, it is commonly called Dirichlet's Box (or Drawer) Principle, after an $1834$ treatment by, who called it the Schubfachprinzip (drawer principle or shelf principle).

In Russian and some other languages, it is known as the Dirichlet principle or Dirichlet's principle, which name ambiguously also refers to the minimum principle for harmonic functions.