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I mean, I studied maths and physics at uni. My recollection is that science is littered with things named after specific people when in actual fact multiple peo
by ace2358 5y ago
I mean, I studied maths and physics at uni. My recollection is that science is littered with things named after specific people when in actual fact multiple people put in hours and hours of work to making these discoveries. But only one name gets slapped on it.
‘Maxwell’s’ equations are a great example. Calculus is also a prime example (d/dx f(x) vs f’(x)). I’m pretty sure Gauss was a fantastic mathematician, but too much is named after him and a lot of recognition taken away from others who greatly contributed.
It’s not a new phenomena. I don’t think it’s great for things to be named after specific people at any point history, but it’s happened before and it’ll continue to happen.
- jazzyjackson 5y agoJohn von Nuemann comes to mind, Edison of course... seems history is written by the patent submitters
- scoot 5y agoAnd Charles Darwin (about 600 years late): https://extendedevolutionarysynthesis.com/resources/timeline-of-evolutionary-theory/ https://extendedevolutionarysynthesis.com/resources/timeline...
- copperx 5y ago> John von Nuemann Are you saying that some of the work attributed to Neumann was not his? Are there any examples?
- jazzyjackson 5y agoThe famed "von Neumann" architecture refers to a write-up he was asked to do to update the Army on progress on the ENIAC. He didn't even intend to publish it, the ENIAC was classified, it was Goldstine that published it with their names on it. See the "controversies" section here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Draft_of_a_Report_on_the_EDVAC https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Draft_of_a_Report_on_t... The book "Pioneer Programmer" by ENIAC programmer Jean Jennings Bartik goes into detail about the egos at play in taking credit for the work done by Eckert & Mauchly.
- SantalBlush 5y agoThe saying goes that a mathematical theorem is named after the first person to discover it after Gauss.
- moonchild 5y agoI heard that said of euler.