Bézout's Identity/Historical Note

Historical Note on Bézout's Identity

There are sources which suggest that Bézout's Identity was first noticed by Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac.

Étienne Bézout's contribution was to prove a more general result, for polynomials.

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