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  1. Ce qu’il fallait démontrer. Unicode : U+220E.

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Du symbole (carré noir) ou (carré blanc) introduit en mathématiques par Paul Halmos[1].

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  1. (Mathématiques) Ce qu’il fallait démontrer.

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  1. The symbol is definitely not my invention — it appeared in popular magazines (not mathematical ones) before I adopted it, but, once again, I seem to have introduced it into mathematics. It is the symbol that sometimes looks like □, and is used to indicate an end, usually the end of a proof. It is most frequently called the 'tombstone', but at least one generous author referred to it as the 'halmos'. — (Paul R. Halmos, I Want to Be a Mathematician: An Automathography, 1985, p. 403)