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 $1707$


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