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seanhuntertoday at 9:26 AM1 replyview on HN

Interestingly, one of his famous tricks of computing complex integrals by parameterizing[1] and then differentiating under the integral is known as “Feynman’s trick” in his honour spite of it having been invented by Euler over 250 years before.

[1] https://zackyzz.github.io/feynman.html


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tux3today at 10:37 AM

A popular naming convention in Mathematics is to name things after the second person to discover them. The first person is Leonhard Euler.