• TachyonTele@piefed.social
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      Huh, guy did a …couple things

      I’m surprised they didn’t just rename mathamatics after him and be done with it

      • CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world
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        Eulerology? Eulerhythmics? Eultonics? Euleronomics?

        Maybe we should go back a step and give science to the scientologists, and make science Euler centric. No more scientists, now all Eulerists. They Eule night and day solving the worlds fundamental mysteries.

      • wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works
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        To be fair, they kind of already did rename all of mathematics after a guy, Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, who wrote the book “al-Kitāb al-Mukhtaṣar fī Ḥisāb al-Jabr wal-Muqābalah” or, in a Latin bastardization: Al Goritmi, author of Al-Jabr.

        You know him because his name is the word “Algorithm”, and his book was so revolutionary that we named the entire branch of mathematics it covered after it: “Algebra”

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            Well, the wikipedia page for both Al-Khwarizmi and algebra both disagree with you, as does the wiki page for Geber, and, oh yeah, the journal of the history of mathematics: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2006.02.006

            “It is well known that our word “algebra” derives ultimately from the Arabic al-jabr, which is part of the name al-jabr wa’l-muq¯abala given to the art of algebra in medieval times. Further, the individual words al-jabr and al-muq¯abala are associated with two steps in the simplification of equations. Al-jabr is the word used in conjunction with moving subtracted quantities to the other side of the equation, and al-muq¯abala is used to combine like terms on opposite sides of the equation.”

            I have additional notes, if the literal source on the history of math is insufficient to convince you of the history of math.