Timeline for What are examples of mathematical concepts named after the wrong people? (Stigler's law)
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| Oct 13, 2010 at 21:36 | comment | added | gowers | So much for trying to find examples on Wikipedia. But perhaps that actually improves my example, making its multiplicity even smaller than 1/2. | |
| Oct 13, 2010 at 20:58 | comment | added | Andrés E. Caicedo | Sorry, but this is a non-example. Martin's axiom was introduced by Martin. It is true that this happened in a paper by Martin and Solovay, and that it was after a construction of Solovay and Tennenbaum suggested it, but there is no misnomer here. | |
| Oct 13, 2010 at 20:54 | history | answered | gowers | CC BY-SA 2.5 |