Timeline for Why is "abelian" infrequently capitalized?
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Nov 5, 2010 at 23:33 | comment | added | Kevin H. Lin | How about Yangian? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangian | |
Nov 5, 2010 at 21:11 | comment | added | Autumn Kent | Oh, I see what you're getting at. Thanks. | |
Nov 5, 2010 at 21:10 | comment | added | Peter Arndt | Funny: If you reimport a noun-made-an-adjective into the realm of nouns again it may restore its capital initial - Jacobian, Pfaffian, Hessian. | |
Nov 5, 2010 at 20:47 | comment | added | Tom Goodwillie | Richard: Yes, but without a suffix. Nobody would ever capitalize the Galois in Galois group or the Bott in Bott periodicity or the Hilbert in Hilbert space. But if you called it Hilbertian space or Galoisian group then you might think about lower case. I'm not saying we don't name things after mathematicians; I'm saying that, at least in English, in recent decades we rarely if ever turn the proper name into a differently-spelled word in order to do so. | |
Nov 5, 2010 at 20:11 | comment | added | Autumn Kent | There are Haken and non-Haken 3-manifolds. | |
Nov 5, 2010 at 18:12 | comment | added | Deane Yang | Or do you mean with the -ian suffix? | |
Nov 5, 2010 at 18:11 | comment | added | Deane Yang | Calabi-Yau spaces? | |
Nov 5, 2010 at 17:44 | history | answered | Tom Goodwillie | CC BY-SA 2.5 |