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Viktor Yakovlevich Bunyakovsky

was born 220 years ago

16 December 1804

Viktor Bunyakovsky worked on Number Theory as well as geometry, mechanics and hydrostatics. He discovered the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality 25 years before Cauchy or Schwarz.

Find out more at: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Bunyakovsky/