Convergent dynamics, a tribute to Boris Pavlovich Demidovich

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 field which is now called incremental stability of dynamical systems. Developments on incremental stability are reviewed from a historical perspective.

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