A result frequently attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte is the topic of this note; it has an interesting history, and there are a considerable number of papers devoted to it. Several relevant articles have appeared in this Monthly. Here we present additional information about the history of the result, supplementing and correcting some of the earlier publications.
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Article
Cox, David A.;
(2011)
Why Eisenstein Proved the Eisenstein Criterion and Why Schönemann Discovered It First
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Article
Grabiner, Judith;
(2009)
Why Did Lagrange “Prove” the Parallel Postulate?
(/isis/citation/CBB001023437/)
Article
Craik, Alex D. D.;
(2013)
Polylogarithms, Functional Equations and More: The Elusive Essays of William Spence (1777--1815)
(/isis/citation/CBB001213656/)
Article
Craik, Alex D. D.;
(2012)
A Forgotten British Analyst: Nicolas Vilant (1737--1807)
(/isis/citation/CBB001210175/)
Book
Alexander, Amir;
(2010)
Duel at Dawn: Heroes, Martyrs, and the Rise of Modern Mathematics
(/isis/citation/CBB001020030/)
Thesis
Ping-Ying Chang;
(2015)
Chinese Hereditary Mathematician Families of the Astronomical Bureau, 1620–1850
(/isis/citation/CBB621834765/)
Article
Andrea Del Centina;
Alessandra Fiocca;
(2021)
The chords theorem recalled to life at the turn of the eighteenth century
(/isis/citation/CBB673858384/)
Article
Nauenberg, Michael;
(2003)
Kepler's Area Law in the Principia: Filling in some Details in Newton's Proof of Proposition 1
(/isis/citation/CBB000410830/)
Book
Anders Engberg-Pedersen;
(2015)
Empire of Chance: The Napoleonic Wars and the Disorder of Things
(/isis/citation/CBB001508439/)
Article
Lorenat, Jemma;
(2012)
Not Set in Stone: Nineteenth-Century Geometrical Constructions and the Malfatti Problem
(/isis/citation/CBB001212294/)
Article
Centrone, Stefania;
(2012)
Strenge Beweise und das Verbot der metábasis eis állo génos
(/isis/citation/CBB001210991/)
Article
Lützen, Jesper;
(2009)
Why Was Wantzel Overlooked for a Century? The Changing Importance of an Impossibility Result
(/isis/citation/CBB000953071/)
Article
Abeles, Francine F.;
(2012)
Toward A Visual Proof System: Lewis Carroll's Method of Trees
(/isis/citation/CBB001214122/)
Book
Chemla, Karine;
(2012)
The History of Mathematical Proof in Ancient Traditions
(/isis/citation/CBB001320137/)
Article
Bir, Atilla;
Kaçar, Mustafa;
(2005)
Salih Zeki's Articles on the Trisection of an Angle
(/isis/citation/CBB000931404/)
Article
Pablo Rodríguez-Vellando;
(2019)
…and so Euler discovered Differential Equations
(/isis/citation/CBB813685606/)
Article
Domingo Martínez-Verdú;
Maria Rosa Massa-Esteve;
Antonio Linero-Bas;
(2023)
Infinite analytical procedures for the computation of logarithms in works by Benito Bails (1731–1797)
(/isis/citation/CBB945634443/)
Article
Bellhouse, David R.;
(2015)
Mathematicians and the Early English Life Insurance Industry
(/isis/citation/CBB001552092/)
Article
Jane Wess;
(2020)
Colin Maclaurin (1698–1746) and His Contemporaries on Wind and Water: The Local and the Universal
(/isis/citation/CBB069751281/)
Article
Cretney, Rosanna;
(2014)
The Origins of Euler's Early Work on Continued Fractions
(/isis/citation/CBB001214151/)
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