> Emily had stumbled on a very counter-intuitive pattern first discovered by Markoff (in this very specific field of maths his name is traditionally spelled ‘M

> Emily had stumbled on a very counter-intuitive pattern first discovered by Markoff (in this very specific field of maths his name is traditionally spelled ‘Markoff’ but in all other areas, it is usually spelled ‘Markov’). Sounds like he had a badly approximable name.