Timeline for What are examples of mathematical concepts named after the wrong people? (Stigler's law)
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| Jun 20, 2023 at 8:42 | comment | added | Hollis Williams | I am no longer sure about my claim that Gauss did not know the result, as he did prove it for a geodesic triangle (see Gauss C F. Disquisitiones generales circa superficies curvas, 1827). | |
| Jun 20, 2023 at 8:39 | comment | added | Hollis Williams | Bonnet wrote ''Depuis que ce Mémoire est composé j’ai vu dans le tome III de la Correspondance de l’Ecole Polytechnique que M. Binet, dans une Note annexée a un Mémoire de M. Olinde Rodrigues, démonstrait de la méme manniére que moi le théorme de M. Gauss ··· .'' | |
| Jun 20, 2023 at 8:36 | comment | added | Hollis Williams | I believe so, see for example link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11425-008-0029-8 | |
| Jun 19, 2023 at 16:22 | comment | added | Mikhail Katz | Is this the same Rodrigues who invented the so-called Hamilton quaternions, also? | |
| S Apr 21, 2023 at 9:39 | history | answered | Hollis Williams | CC BY-SA 4.0 | |
| S Apr 21, 2023 at 9:39 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Hollis Williams |