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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



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


Leonhard Euler (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonhard_Euler) is the only reason i believe in "extraterrestrial life" which are "more intelligent" than us :-)

List of topics named after Leonhard Euler - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_topics_named_after_Leo...




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