Timeline for Obscure Names in Mathematics [closed]
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| Oct 25, 2014 at 11:49 | comment | added | JRN | The thirty-six officers problem. | |
| Oct 23, 2014 at 5:16 | comment | added | JRN | I propose Myerson's Observation: "If we are going to add theorems named after the wrong people then we will be here all day." | |
| Oct 22, 2014 at 22:28 | history | closed |
Yemon Choi Boris Bukh Chris Godsil Suvrit Mariano Suárez-Álvarez |
Not suitable for this site | |
| Oct 22, 2014 at 22:05 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | Yes, I believe that's known as Yemon's Observation. | |
| Oct 22, 2014 at 22:02 | answer | added | dfan | timeline score: 0 | |
| Oct 22, 2014 at 21:46 | answer | added | Bruno Stonek | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 22, 2014 at 21:42 | answer | added | Todd Trimble | timeline score: 0 | |
| Oct 22, 2014 at 21:33 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | Oh come on - if we are going to add theorems named after the wrong people then we will be here all day... | |
| Oct 22, 2014 at 21:33 | comment | added | Noam D. Elkies | In which case add "Platonic solids". | |
| Oct 22, 2014 at 21:13 | answer | added | Yoav Kallus | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 22, 2014 at 20:25 | answer | added | Timothy Chow | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 22, 2014 at 20:10 | comment | added | Ali Caglayan | You could argue to some extent about Pell's equations. Pell had nothing to do with them. | |
| Oct 22, 2014 at 19:46 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Oct 22, 2014 at 18:48 | answer | added | Dietrich Burde | timeline score: 11 | |
| Oct 22, 2014 at 18:38 | comment | added | Nate Eldredge | @WillJagy: See also the Going Down Theorem. | |
| Oct 22, 2014 at 15:12 | comment | added | user5117 | The Soul Theorem is one that comes to mind. | |
| Oct 22, 2014 at 14:25 | history | reopened |
Zurab Silagadze Denis Serre Dirk Stefan Kohl♦ Noam D. Elkies |
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| Oct 22, 2014 at 12:01 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | The Dining Philosophers Problem seems to have some relation to the Byzantine Generals Problem, marknelson.us/2007/07/23/byzantine | |
| Oct 22, 2014 at 11:19 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Todd Trimble | ||
| Oct 22, 2014 at 8:50 | review | Reopen votes | |||
| Oct 22, 2014 at 14:27 | |||||
| Oct 22, 2014 at 7:42 | comment | added | Peter McNamara | voted to close because it's nowhere near research level. I'm not sure whether or not this is on-topic at math.SE because I don't know enough about that site. | |
| Oct 22, 2014 at 7:40 | history | closed |
Andrés E. Caicedo Eric Wofsey Qiaochu Yuan Stefan Waldmann Peter McNamara |
Not suitable for this site | |
| Oct 22, 2014 at 7:33 | answer | added | Lucas Kaufmann | timeline score: 12 | |
| Oct 22, 2014 at 7:17 | history | edited | Manfred Weis | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added "conjectures" as admissible answers as their decision is also a problem.
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| Oct 22, 2014 at 7:08 | answer | added | Igor Khavkine | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 22, 2014 at 7:04 | comment | added | Manfred Weis | @NoamD.Elkies since MO 2.0 questions can't be made community wiki by the author (see the answer to this Meta post: meta.mathoverflow.net/questions/1713/…) | |
| Oct 22, 2014 at 6:53 | history | edited | Manfred Weis | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added the "Dining Philosophers Problem"
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| Oct 22, 2014 at 6:40 | history | edited | Manfred Weis | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added the "Mother Worm Problem"
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| Oct 22, 2014 at 6:34 | answer | added | bof | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 22, 2014 at 6:27 | comment | added | Noam D. Elkies | This doesn't need to be closed quickly (unless it's a duplicate) but should be made community wiki. | |
| Oct 22, 2014 at 6:17 | history | edited | Manfred Weis | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added examples of obscure names
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| Oct 22, 2014 at 6:08 | answer | added | Noam D. Elkies | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 22, 2014 at 5:33 | answer | added | Gerry Myerson | timeline score: 15 | |
| Oct 22, 2014 at 5:16 | review | Close votes | |||
| Oct 22, 2014 at 7:42 | |||||
| Oct 22, 2014 at 4:59 | answer | added | Robert Israel | timeline score: 16 | |
| Oct 22, 2014 at 4:35 | comment | added | Will Jagy | I thought Happy Ending referred to something completely different. | |
| Oct 22, 2014 at 4:29 | history | asked | Manfred Weis | CC BY-SA 3.0 |