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Same here, and some definitions named by people's names. I totally understand the need to attribute and respect people's work, but a more descriptive name is al
by whooshee 7y ago
Same here, and some definitions named by people's names. I totally understand the need to attribute and respect people's work, but a more descriptive name is almost always easier to remember and talk about.
- jerf 7y agoThis one at least has the justification that there often aren't any words. When you're hip-deep in topology, grabbing graph theory with your right hand and algebra with your left, you've left English way behind anyhow. Now we just need to go back in time and convince Euler and Grothendieck to pretty-please either discover fewer things, or change their names every couple of years or something.
- vharuck 7y agoHow about including given names with everything named after one of the many Bernoullis? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernoulli_family https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernoulli_family
- UnFleshedOne 7y agoDescriptive names, even when possible, translate very poorly to other languages.