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Re:Mathematicians should stop naming things after each other by mattkrause on Saturday September 05, 2020 @04:00PM (#24386449)
I’m not sure there’s a huge difference between fields: CS also has AVL trees and the RSA algorithm (both named after inventors), red-black trees (mnemonic, maybe, but not descriptive), and B-Trees (Boeing? Balance, Bayer? No one knows, not even the creators —- see 16:10 here https://vimeo.com/73481096)

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