This is a very nice argument, which might be worth spelling out a bit for anyone who’s a bit less confident with linear algebra than @GeoffdeGuere. (1/3) https://t.co/5moSGAQqpl
The physicist Arnold Sommerfeld was the first person to use the contour integral sign ∮ in his 1917 paper "Drude's dispersion theory from the point of view of Bohr's model and the constitution of H₂, O₂ and N₂" pic.twitter.com/jiX0Dho5pI