Timeline for Obscure Names in Mathematics
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| Oct 23, 2014 at 17:40 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | @GerryMyerson : Maybe I should use the Wikipedia name, "napkin folding problem." But then maybe the objection is that "folding" is a clue to what it is about. | |
| Oct 22, 2014 at 22:06 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | "problems, whose names do not give any indication to what they are about or, to which person it is related...." Does the Margulis napkin problem qualify? | |
| Oct 22, 2014 at 21:26 | comment | added | Yoav Kallus | And speaking of Aztec diamond, Cairo pentagonal tilings. | |
| Oct 22, 2014 at 21:13 | comment | added | darij grinberg | Speaking of tropical geometry: the Aztec diamond and the arctic circle theorem ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_diamond ). | |
| S Oct 22, 2014 at 20:25 | history | answered | Timothy Chow | CC BY-SA 3.0 | |
| S Oct 22, 2014 at 20:25 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Timothy Chow |