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Questions of the kind "What's the name for a X that satisfies property Y?"

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What are examples of mathematical concepts named after the wrong people? (Stigler's law)

Quoting from Alan Sokal's 2005 paper on the multivariate Tutte polynomial: "The Potts model was invented in the early 1950s by Potts’ thesis advisor Domb. The $q = 2$ case, known as the Ising model, w …