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Re:Mathematicians should stop naming things after each other by abnry on Saturday September 05, 2020 @03:03PM (#24386048)
This is exactly how I feel. What I do think you can criticize, however, is the lack of imagination mathematicians have in naming theorems. If only there were more Ham Sandwich Theorems [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ham_sandwich_theorem

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Re:Mathematicians should stop naming things after each other by d2v on Saturday September 05, 2020 @03:23PM (#24386193)
> The two-dimensional variant of the theorem (also known as the pancake theorem) can be proved by an argument which appears in the fair cake-cutting literature

This is the first time that reading about math has made me hungry.

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