In Russian literature isit is known as the Kotelnikov's theorem, named after [[Vladimir Kotelnikov]], who discovered it in 1933.<ref>Kotelnikov VA, ''On the transmission capacity of "ether" and wire in electrocommunications'', [http://ict.open.ac.uk/classics/1.pdf (English translation, PDF)], Izd. Red. Upr. Svyazzi RKKA (1933), Reprint in ''[http://www.ieeta.pt/~pjf/MSTMA/ Modern Sampling Theory: Mathematics and Applications]'', Editors: J. J. Benedetto und PJSG Ferreira, Birkhauser (Boston) 2000, {{ISBN|0-8176-4023-1}}.</ref>
