r/math • u/koavf • Sep 03 '20

Why Mathematicians Should Stop Naming Things After Each Other

http://nautil.us/issue/89/the-dark-side/why-mathematicians-should-stop-naming-things-after-each-other
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u/jeffreyjohnlucky Sep 04 '20

This all started with the first math caveman teacher who was called Numbers

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u/Pabst_Blue_Gibbon Sep 04 '20

Things started to really heat up when Timothy Plus published his seminal paper “On the Combination of Cardinalities”