tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-264226589944705290.post2025128832699724298..comments2023-11-05T03:45:25.001-08:00Comments on God Plays Dice: Eponyms in mathematicsMichael Lugohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15671307315028242949noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-264226589944705290.post-38581992001516757482010-02-22T13:16:43.034-08:002010-02-22T13:16:43.034-08:00You are right. No more eponymous names! From now o...You are right. No more eponymous names! From now on it should be the "right-triangle" theorem. What does "Pythagoras" mean anyway?Robert Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02238749063631503657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-264226589944705290.post-81171304926026751322009-09-28T18:04:54.608-07:002009-09-28T18:04:54.608-07:00In "History of Class Field Theory", Keit...In "History of Class Field Theory", Keith Conrad mentions that Dickson did something similar when defining what are now known as cyclic algebras:<br /><br />"Dickson called these 'algebras of type D,' but the hint did not have long-term influence (unlike Banach's 'espace du type B). They are no longer called Dickson algebras".Bennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-264226589944705290.post-9690198395360898482009-09-24T17:06:37.865-07:002009-09-24T17:06:37.865-07:00The eponymous names always bothered me particularl...The eponymous names always bothered me particularly in algebra as I was always having to look up definitions in the back.<br /><br />Algebra always made sense to me, it's what you do in algebra class with x's and y's. Rings make me think of the integers modulo a number as being a ring of numbers so I think that's okay. And loop is a sort of modification of a ring.CarlBrannenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17180079098492232258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-264226589944705290.post-39344956899591001332009-09-24T02:08:22.590-07:002009-09-24T02:08:22.590-07:00Similarly in statistics, Akaike referred to his cr...Similarly in statistics, Akaike referred to his criterion as "An Information Criterion" or "AIC"Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02576406691094693680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-264226589944705290.post-60604236515843584882009-09-23T21:23:27.393-07:002009-09-23T21:23:27.393-07:00The story seems to be that people were already beg...The story seems to be that people were already beginning to call them Banach spaces; Banach referred to them as spaces of type B out of modesty. See <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=BaEgbIoPTygC&pg=PA124&lpg=PA124&dq=%22spaces+of+type+b%22&source=bl&ots=sz9QUZDc9l&sig=_kF3-5XvoYB6jVaFo6pYRcu9cEU&hl=en&ei=6vK6SsS5EtyLtgfm86m6DQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4#v=onepage&q=%22spaces%20of%20type%20b%22&f=false" rel="nofollow">here</a> (page 124 of Limaye's Functional Analysis).Todd Trimblehttp://www.topologicalmusings.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-264226589944705290.post-2757103208064597622009-09-23T18:53:24.364-07:002009-09-23T18:53:24.364-07:00Yes, sorry, confusion when retyping three times be...Yes, sorry, confusion when retyping three times because blogger decided it wasn't going to take OpenIDAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-264226589944705290.post-34945717547585196992009-09-23T18:17:50.943-07:002009-09-23T18:17:50.943-07:00Where by "label" I mean "describe&q...Where by "label" I mean "describe". (I suspect that's what you meant as well, although I don't mean to put words in your mouth.)Michael Lugohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01950197848369071260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-264226589944705290.post-63910033602036166412009-09-23T18:15:24.163-07:002009-09-23T18:15:24.163-07:00I wasn't saying that all non-eponyms label.I wasn't saying that <i>all</i> non-eponyms label.Michael Lugohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01950197848369071260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-264226589944705290.post-45703247547501152762009-09-23T18:07:39.763-07:002009-09-23T18:07:39.763-07:00How does "ring" label? "algebra&qu...How does "ring" label? "algebra"? "loop"?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com