Quote of the day

by Brian Hayes

Published 10 January 2006

In the fall of 1972 President Nixon announced that the rate of increase of inflation was decreasing. This was the first time a sitting president used the third derivative to advance his case for reelection.

—Hugo Rossi, Notices of the AMS, vol. 43, no. 10, Oct. 1996

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Publication history

First publication: 10 January 2006

Converted to Eleventy framework: 22 April 2025

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