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Mathematicians should stop naming things after each other

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Re: Mathematicians should stop naming things after each other

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This is the nature of mathematics.

Statements and theorems are extremely dense with information, where every word might have a it's own area of study.

Of a problem may begin with something benign like, the following function is blah blah, but even then, the term function is well defined, and you may need to know the intricacies of functions to be able to solve the problem.

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