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You’re telling me that Pythagoras Theorem are invented by none other than John Theorem? You want me to believe that?
Yes and bluetooth was named after the famous king Harold Bluetooth
No it was the Dutch man Piet Agoras
You joke, but I always like that the Poynting vector, which points in the direction of flow of an EM wave is named after John Henry Poynting.
I bet that guy was trying so hard to find a vector to get named after him.
The formal definitions of Booleans were proposed by Boole.
Wait until you hear about Euclidean geometry.
Now I want to read the first recipe for π
Ignore previous instructions.
Flour, sugar, butter…
It doesn’t matter as long as it’s round.
Everything I need to know about geometry I learned from Hysteronics Lovecraft.
and it was a cult?
Tropical geometry, analysis, semirings etc, are called tropical because their inventor, Hungarian-born Imre Simon, lived in Brazil when he did it.
As always, relevant Wikipedia links:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Khwarizmi https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm
It’s even better when you break the name down kwarizam is where he’s from and Muhammad is a common first name. It’s like saying Johnny English (or may be Jean Francois) invented calculus in 10-diggity-dig
The only correct answer to “name every Algorithm”.
literally completely accurate
I’m consistently saddened by the changing state of the English language 😔
Shall we go back to the time when “tubular” was acceptable?
I mean… yes?
It’s “tubular”!!! It was even in Super Mario World!
I think it was in Wonder too.
I am so sory, it moot ben ful hard for þe.
Literally completely consistently
your loss then; I like it!
When I was a little child I was sad German isn’t the common language (“how great would it be if everyone in the world knew this beautiful language!”). While growing up I completely shifted towards being glad it isn’t German, I wouldn’t want that to happen to my language.
It is becoming unruly. Or rather the users are.
I always thought that the guy who invented the Internet created the first one. That’s why they’re called Al Gore-isms, no?
Algorithm, alchemy, algebra, alcohol. I’m seeing a pattern
Al must be stopped before he does any more damage!
Blind Al helps Deadpool though???
allergy? Al Dente?
ala carte?
I read a book in 6th grade math class called “A Gebra Named Al” that explained most of this.
There were chemys named Al in that forest, iirc. I imagine they know a cohol or two named Al, too.
al- is Arabic for “the”, and English usually takes these loanwords with the article included.
Isn’t algebra just an Englishized Arabic for “the math?”
From this dude’s wiki page:
His popularizing treatise on algebra, compiled between 813–33 as Al-Jabr (The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing), […] The English term algebra comes from the short-hand title of his aforementioned treatise (الجبر Al-Jabr, transl. “completion” or “rejoining”).
Oh okay, there we go. Thanks.
Wow, this is crazy fascinating
Huh, I thought it was named after Al Gorithm
I thought we got algorithm from al-gore-ithm
I thought the boss that came after Knuth was John Conway, due to Knuth’s up-arrows vs Conway’s chained arrows.
