According to Jimbo, the Yang–Baxter equation (YBE) manifested itself in the works of J. B. McGuire in 1964 and C. N. Yang in 1967. They considered a quantum mechanical many-body problem on a line having c ∑ ∑ i < j δ δ ( x i − − x j ) as the potential. Using Bethe's Ansatz techniques, they found that the scattering matrix factorized to that of the two-body problem, and determined it exactly. Here YBE arises as the consistency condition for the factorization.