Eigenvector isn't that bad, it's just not english: "The prefix eigen- is adopted from the German word "eigen" for "own"[1] in the sense of a characteristic des

Eigenvector isn't that bad, it's just not english: "The prefix eigen- is adopted from the German word "eigen" for "own"[1] in the sense of a characteristic description" (from wikipedia) I think Shannon's Information Theory is pretty fair too. It's about how much information is in a message. Plus, Computer Science has it's own grievous names: A* search, B* search, B tree, B+ tree, B* tree. That always drove me nuts.