What's so toxic about honouring a long-dead mathematician? The article praises the Ancient Greeks and how they named things after their teachers. That, to me, i

What's so toxic about honouring a long-dead mathematician? The article praises the Ancient Greeks and how they named things after their teachers. That, to me, is far more problematic. The history and the effort that went into developing the theorems of geometry presented by Euclid's Elements are all lost. Now we only know about Euclid, Pythagoras, Archimedes, and maybe a few others. On the other hand, we know far more about the lives of Fermat, Euler, Gauss, Riemann, and Newton. While we can't owe all of the work of historians to eponymous topics, the use of their names in everyday mathematics helps to keep their memory alive so that new generations of people may be interested in learning about the history of mathematics.