Re:Mathematicians should stop naming things after each other
by jkaptur on Sunday September 06, 2020 @01:00AM
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Memoization? Or dynamic programming? The latter is a funny story:
> ... Thus, I thought dynamic programming was a good name. It was something not even a Congressman could object to. So I used it as an umbrella for my activities.
> ... Thus, I thought dynamic programming was a good name. It was something not even a Congressman could object to. So I used it as an umbrella for my activities.
http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/~ami/cd/or50/1526-5463-2002-50-01-0...