Timeline for Pseudonyms of famous mathematicians
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| Jun 18, 2012 at 18:38 | history | edited | David White | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Fixed typo, since this was on the frontpage anyway
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| Mar 31, 2011 at 10:13 | comment | added | Michael Renardy | It was common in the early middle ages to identify people by their first name and home town, hence names like Leonardo of Pisa. In his time, the transition to using family names as we do today was under way. Fibonacci means "of the Bonacci family," not "son of Bonacci." (His father's name with Guglielmo). He also used the name Bigollo, which was truly a nickname. | |
| Nov 8, 2010 at 20:39 | comment | added | Harun Šiljak | Few sidenotes: 1. Bearing the name Abu Jafar implies that he most probably had a son named Jafar. 2. drawing a line between first and family name in Oriental naming schemes is quite hard - so one can consider 'al-Khwarizmi' as just a part of his family name. 3. My experience tells me that most of people with 'geographic' family names get those when they move - i.e. I believe Al-Khwarizmi is not an exception in that case - family probably got the name when they moved to the south. This is a bit off-topic, but I couldn't help it. | |
| Nov 8, 2010 at 19:56 | comment | added | Hany | If you mean by Al-Khoresmi "Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi" then I think he does not qualify. It was customary at the time to use geographic names of family origin as family name. This means that he had the name "Al-Khwarizmi" all his life and that his father, brothers and sons (if he had any) had the same name. | |
| Nov 8, 2010 at 16:05 | comment | added | Gian Maria Dall'Ara | I think that Leonardo da Pisa is the nickname (whose meaning is clear), while Fibonacci is his family name, being the contraction of "filius bonacci"="son of Bonacci". | |
| Nov 7, 2010 at 20:25 | history | edited | zhoraster | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Nov 7, 2010 at 20:15 | history | answered | zhoraster | CC BY-SA 2.5 |