Re:Mathematicians should stop naming things after each other
by kergonath on Sunday September 06, 2020 @12:36PM
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You know you've made it when you need a Wikipedia article to keep track of what you've done. Gauss' is similar, if maybe a bit shorter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_named_after_Car...
> Many of these entities have been given simple and ambiguous names such as Euler's function, Euler's equation, and Euler's formula.
> In an effort to avoid naming everything after Euler, some discoveries and theorems are attributed to the first person to have proved them after Euler.