Cauchy
Americannoun
noun
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This quilt, finished in January 2019, is “a quiet scream,” she wrote on her blog, Completely Cauchy, a nod to mathematician Augustin-Louis Cauchy.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 22, 2020
“I’m disappointed and scared because he didn’t understand the anger,” Mr. Cauchy added.
From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2018
Kimber, who has gained a following for her quilting blog "Completely Cauchy," holds a cult-like status in the modern quilting community.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2016
And so, in his “Cours d’Analyse” of 1821, Cauchy recast the calculus without resorting to the intuitive idea that a line is composed of infinitesimal points.
From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2014
A profound mathematician, Cauchy exercised by his perspicuous and rigorous methods a great influence over his contemporaries and successors.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various
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