Definition:Euler-Mascheroni Constant/Historical Note

Historical Note on Euler-Mascheroni Constant
The Euler-Mascheroni Constant was introduced by in $1734$, and calculated it to $16$ decimal places.

Some sources claim it was who named it gamma ($\gamma$), in $1781$, but others suggest its first appearance of that symbol for it was in 's $1790$ work Adnotationes ad calculum integrale Euleri.

published a calculation to $32$ places of the value of this constant.

Only the first $19$ places were accurate. The remaining ones were corrected in $1809$ by.

An early appearance of the symbol $\gamma$ was by in his $1837$ paper.