We review and pay tribute to a result on convergent systems by the Russian mathematician Boris Pavlovich Demidovich. In a sense, Demidovich's approach forms a prelude to a ÿeld which is now called incremental stability of dynamical systems. Developments on incremental stability are reviewed from a historical perspective.
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