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If you learn a lot of math, a lot of names will hint at what they are so you have less to memorize. :-)
by sfpotter 4y ago
If you learn a lot of math, a lot of names will hint at what they are so you have less to memorize. :-)
- Waterluvian 4y agoExcept when some smart jerk discovered like eight different things!
- BlueTemplar 4y agoMandatory not-Euler's : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_named_after_Leonhard_Euler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_named_after_Leo...
- jks 4y agoMy favorite is the "Lemma that is not Burnside's". Also known as the orbit-counting theorem, the Pólya-Burnside lemma, the Cauchy-Frobenius lemma, and of course Burnside's lemma.
- jpmattia 4y agoAnd then we have Grothendieck's prime (57), just to keep life interesting.
- ragnese 4y agoOr when a smart jerk discovered a thing, and then discovered another thing based on the first thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramond%E2%80%93Ramond_field https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramond%E2%80%93Ramond_field
- idontpost 4y agoDamn you Markov!