| It has been traced back to the Swiss Jakob James Bernoulli, the Frenchman B | 197 "The process of reasoning called "Mathematical Induction" has had several independent origins |
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| Fermat, and the Italian F |
] By reading a little between the lines one can find traces of mathematical induction still earlier, in the writings of the Hindus and the Greeks, as, for instance, in the "cyclic method" of Bhaskara, and in Euclid's proof that the number of primes is infinite.
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