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STOP NAMING MATH CONCEPTS AFTER PEOPLE!

CENTURIES of giving unhelpful names of abstract concepts yet NO REAL-WORLD USE found for not just giving a name that actually describes something.

Wanted to give something a useless unhelpful name anyways just for laughs? We had a a tool for that: it was called naming a specific mathematical concept after a common non-math word (e.g. "normal subgroup" or "regular space.")

"Yes, please name this space of geometric structures after actual Nazi Teichmuller who didn't even discover it."
Statements dreamed up by the AMR assholes.

Look at what mathematicians have been demanding your respect for all this time. These are REAL names for math concepts used by REAL mathematicians!

Whitehead's Theorem: Which one? There are more than one mathematician named Whitehead and they each discovered more than one theorem.
Pell's Equation: Not discovered by Pell.
Cartan-Killing Form: Why are we killing Cartan?
Nielsen-Thurston Classification: Are we classifying Thurstons? You can't just say "classification of elements of the mapping class group?" Also there are more than one mathematician named Thurston (including at least one father-son duo).

"Hello, I study Lie Theory. It's named after Sophus Lie."

They're telling us directly that they're lying and we're still falling for it!

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