The Euler Naming Crisis

The Euler Naming Crisis
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Imagine being SO brilliant that mathematicians literally had to start giving credit to the second-place finishers just to avoid naming the entire field "Euler-matics"! 🧮

The man discovered so much that historians were like "Okay, if Euler found it first, let's pretend he didn't and name it after whoever showed up fashionably late to the math party." It's basically the mathematical equivalent of saying "save some discoveries for the rest of us, Leonard!"

If scientists today followed the same naming convention, we'd have to start crediting our lab interns just to avoid having everything named after the first person who actually figured it out!

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