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Re:Floor, Ceiling, Bracket by dhosek on Thursday April 15, 2021 @04:26PM (#26825687)
Or currying
Re:Floor, Ceiling, Bracket by Jtsummers on Thursday April 15, 2021 @04:38PM (#26825835)
Dijkstra's algorithm, Turing machines, von Neumann architecture, Hoare triples, Hamming distance, Levenshtein distance, Fisher-Yates (or Knute) shuffle, ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_algorithms - many of the items in this list are named after people.

Re:Floor, Ceiling, Bracket by beagle3 on Thursday April 15, 2021 @05:44PM (#26826518)
Krebs' cycle, HeLa cells and Lugol's formula in medicine as well; And also an Allen key, a Phillips screwdriver, many of the physical units (Ampere, Volt, Tesla, Weber, Newton, ...).

It happens in all fields. For that matter, the Hebrew word for masturbation is named after Onan, who was described in the bible as having done so.

Re:Floor, Ceiling, Bracket by robocat on Friday April 16, 2021 @12:32AM (#26829483)
Onanism and related words exist in English and other languages too: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/onanism
Re:Floor, Ceiling, Bracket by User23 on Thursday April 15, 2021 @09:06PM (#26828138)
Kolmogorov complexity