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Re:Mathematicians should stop naming things after each other by bsza on Saturday September 05, 2020 @03:28PM (#24386237)
People's names can be confused too. A few weeks ago I referred to the Legendre symbol as "Lagrange symbol" by mistake when talking to a colleague. Such things are inevitable however you name things; some words happen to have small Levenshulme-distances...
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Re:Mathematicians should stop naming things after each other by mwcampbell on Saturday September 05, 2020 @05:00PM (#24386809)
I assume your misspelling of Levenshtein distance was intentional. Figured I'd drop the correct spelling here for anyone trying to look it up.
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Re:Mathematicians should stop naming things after each other by kergonath on Saturday September 05, 2020 @04:59PM (#24386806)
Particularly if the names are hard to pronounce or remember because of the cultural and language difference. Few French-speaking people would confuse Legendre ('the son-in-law') and Lagrange ('the barn').
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Re:Mathematicians should stop naming things after each other by Tainnor on Saturday September 05, 2020 @05:11PM (#24386871)
Lagrange vs. Legendre is kinda really easy to mix up, since you have Legendre polynomials and Lagrange polynomials and both are important in numerical analysis...
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