Timeline for Pseudonyms of famous mathematicians
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| Jan 4, 2020 at 15:27 | comment | added | LSpice | Clickable link: MR 84g:05002. | |
| Nov 17, 2010 at 21:39 | comment | added | Denis Serre | It turns out that there is a "Séminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire" (Lotharingic seminar of combinatorics), to which some of my colleagues of the University of Lyon are associated. This must not be a coincidence. The denomination comes from the fact that Lotharingie was the kingdom between France and Germany (approximately from the North See to the Mediteranean See) after Verdun's treaty in 843. It did not last, because France and Germany fought to dominate it. This fight lasted more than a thousand years, till 1945. | |
| Nov 9, 2010 at 9:30 | comment | added | darij grinberg | Yes, this was detailed in the preface to the 2nd edition of their first book (Combinatorics on Words). It stands for Lothaire aka Lothar I, King of Lotharingia. The similarities to the Bourbaki name choice are interesting... | |
| Nov 9, 2010 at 4:29 | history | answered | Gerry Myerson | CC BY-SA 2.5 |