The author certainly has a point. However, when he mentioned rote memorization I was reminded how easy it came to me to remember all these names. I majored in p

The author certainly has a point. However, when he mentioned rote memorization I was reminded how easy it came to me to remember all these names. I majored in physics and minored in math, and at some point I realized how many theorems and mathematical objects I knew that were named after a person without sitting down and trying to memorize them. As soon as the concept of, say, a Taylor series, Hilbert space, Schrödinger equation, the Schwarzschild radius or the Tesla unit was introduced, the name stuck immediately. Then again, I could add another argument as to why naming things after persons is bad: it's ridiculous how many things have been named after Euler [1] or Gauß [2]. But I'm not aware that this causes widespread confusion. Maybe it's not a problem. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_named_after_Leonhard_Euler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_named_after_Leo... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_named_after_Carl_Friedrich_Gauss https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_named_after_Car...