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Complex things cannot be explained easily. As such, from this perspective, it doesn't matter if a complex topic is named by a person or by some abstract, ridicu
by firebaze 6y ago
Complex things cannot be explained easily. As such, from this perspective, it doesn't matter if a complex topic is named by a person or by some abstract, ridiculously compressed word describing an aspect of it.
But on the other hand, names are simply irrelevant. Anything is better than a name of a person, even if that person was brilliant. The person may be remembered as an aspect of some discovery (say, Einstein), but the concept as such should have some distinct name, not tainted by history, or mere human lifetimes. It should transcend existence as experienced by a human.
- lambdatronics 6y agoWe've got at least one physicist in our corner: "Hestenes is adamant about calling this mathematical approach “geometric algebra” and its extension “geometric calculus,” rather than referring to it as “Clifford algebra”." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hestenes#Geometric_algebra_and_calculus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hestenes#Geometric_algeb... Unfortunately, this should really be called algebraic geometry, but that name is already taken by another field...
- DreamScatter 6y agoCome on, switching geometric algebra and algebraic geometry makes no difference.