What is the "correct" pronunciation of Robin Hartshorne's last name? Mostly I hear it pronounced "Har-shorn" although I've also heard "Harts-orn" and maybe a few other variations.
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asked Apr 4, 2010 at 4:49
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5$\begingroup$ Here are two similar questions, to which we might want to apply the same standards: mathoverflow.net/questions/4381/pronunciation-dijkstra, mathoverflow.net/questions/4394/pronunciation-crapo $\endgroup$– Jonas MeyerCommented Apr 4, 2010 at 5:24
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47$\begingroup$ I pity the poor devils with unpronounceable names... $\endgroup$– Georges ElencwajgCommented Apr 4, 2010 at 9:10
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7$\begingroup$ I'm with Georges on this. $\endgroup$– Mikael Vejdemo-JohanssonCommented Apr 4, 2010 at 17:56
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15$\begingroup$ I was once told, "'Hart-shorn' is the book, 'Harts-horn' is the person." $\endgroup$– Jonathan WiseCommented Apr 4, 2010 at 21:17
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3$\begingroup$ The poor devils could follow Kiran Kedlaya's example: mit.edu/~kedlaya/about-my-name.html $\endgroup$– Greg MarksCommented Jul 30, 2011 at 21:09
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He prefers it be pronounced as in Hart's Horn. I asked him a few years ago, our brief common ground being assisting Marvin Jay Greenberg with revisions for the fourth edition of his book on Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometry. That is not to say that I have ever heard anyone else say it that way. But then few people get my name right.
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5$\begingroup$ As it happens, I asked Robin the same qustion a few weeks ago and he replied: "think of hart's horn (it means the horn of a deer)" $\endgroup$ Commented Apr 4, 2010 at 10:57
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3$\begingroup$ (So is Figueroa, by the way.) $\endgroup$ Commented Apr 4, 2010 at 16:07
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5$\begingroup$ BTW, my given name is Robert Lewis; people call me Bob Lewis. That's "B" as in Banach, "o" as in "operator", "L" as in "Labochevsky", an "ew" diphthong pronounced generally as the "u" in "grand U-nified theory, "i" as in "integral" and "s" as in "simplex". Any questions? $\endgroup$ Commented Jan 10, 2011 at 17:18
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11$\begingroup$ I once heard somebody quip that the man's name is pronounced "Hart's Horn" but the book is pronounced "Hart Shorn." $\endgroup$– RamseyCommented Feb 8, 2013 at 20:37