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Most people who have a lot of things named after then wanted to have a lot of things named after them. Consider: why is more named after von Neumann then Erdos?
by kalium-xyz 6y ago
Most people who have a lot of things named after then wanted to have a lot of things named after them. Consider: why is more named after von Neumann then Erdos?
- eru 6y agoCompared https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_named_after_John_von_Neumann https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_named_after_Joh... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_named_after_Paul_Erd%C5%91s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_named_after_Pau... Seems more or less a tie to me. [0] Especially compared to this chap: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_named_after_Carl_Friedrich_Gauss https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_named_after_Car... [0] Actually, it's not a tie: If you add the entries on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conjectures_by_Paul_Erd%C5%91s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conjectures_by_Paul_Er... you get a clear winner.
- gcanyon 6y agoThere's a large number of things named after Euler as well -- so many that sometimes things are named after the first person to prove them after Euler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_named_after_Leonhard_Euler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_named_after_Leo...