Newton-Girard Formulas/Historical Note
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Historical Note on Newton-Girard Formulas
The Newton-Girard Formulas were discovered by Albert Girard in $1629$.
Isaac Newton rediscovered them for himself in $1666$, apparently not having known about Girard's work.
He published them in his Arithmetica Universalis of $1707$
Sources
- 1969: D.J. Struik: Source Book in Mathematics, 1200-1800
- 1997: Donald E. Knuth: The Art of Computer Programming: Volume 1: Fundamental Algorithms (3rd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): $\S 1.2.9$: Generating Functions: Exercise $10$