Timeline for What are examples of mathematical concepts named after the wrong people? (Stigler's law)
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| Aug 15, 2022 at 18:32 | comment | added | smci | Thanks @MartinSleziak for adding the WaybackMachine link | |
| Aug 14, 2022 at 8:14 | history | edited | Martin Sleziak | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 18, 2011 at 21:12 | comment | added | smci | @Charles: Uhuh. What name, or topic, were they taught to you under? ('properties of polynomials'?) | |
| Jan 18, 2011 at 21:10 | history | edited | smci | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Jan 18, 2011 at 20:48 | comment | added | Charles Rezk | I was educated in the US, and was unaware of the name "Vieta's formulas" until about two minutes ago. | |
| Jan 18, 2011 at 20:38 | comment | added | smci | It may be geographically dependent. At high school level, no. I was educated in Ireland and never saw these referred to as Vieta's formulas. Even in college they would be blankly presented as 'properties of polynomials'. If you google (and manage to find them as 'sum-of-roots') that is typically how you will find them presented. At IMO level, perhaps. Even then I don't recall ever seeing the name (not like Cauchy-Schwarz, Hölder, Pappus, Chinese Remainder Theorem et al). Personally I only found out the name in 2008, i.e. 20 years later. And it's not like I didn't read a lot. | |
| Jan 18, 2011 at 20:10 | comment | added | Qiaochu Yuan | Really? People in high school competition circles, at least in the US, are generally pretty good about calling them Vieta's formulas. | |
| Jan 18, 2011 at 20:06 | history | answered | smci | CC BY-SA 2.5 |