Saturday 25 January 2014

names are arbitrary labels

Why does absolutely everything in maths have a person’s name attached to it?  It makes it incredibly difficult to remember what things are called (names are essentially meaningless). Case in point: I’ve always referred to this form of matrix product as “pointwise multiplication”, and never even knew it had two different people’s names attached, until today!



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