Newton-Girard Identities/Historical Note

Historical Note on Newton-Girard Identities

The Newton-Girard Identities 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 $10$
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