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Achievements in maths
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonhard_Euler
Huh, guy did a ...couple things
I'm surprised they didn't just rename mathamatics after him and be done with it
Eulerology? Eulerhythmics? Eultonics? Euleronomics?
Maybe we should go back a step and give science to the scientologists, and make science Euler centric. No more scientists, now all Eulerists. They Eule night and day solving the worlds fundamental mysteries.
Sweet memes are made of this.
Eulerics
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You should elaborate. Talk to me...
...like lemmings do.
To be fair, they kind of already did rename all of mathematics after a guy, Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, who wrote the book "al-Kitāb al-Mukhtaṣar fī Ḥisāb al-Jabr wal-Muqābalah" or, in a Latin bastardization: Al Goritmi, author of Al-Jabr.
You know him because his name is the word "Algorithm", and his book was so revolutionary that we named the entire branch of mathematics it covered after it: "Algebra"
Algebra was named after al-Jabir, whose name in Latin is Geber.
Well, the wikipedia page for both Al-Khwarizmi and algebra both disagree with you, as does the wiki page for Geber, and, oh yeah, the journal of the history of mathematics: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2006.02.006
I have additional notes, if the literal source on the history of math is insufficient to convince you of the history of math.
Okay, maybe I got "algebra" confused with "gibberish" qua relation to al-Jabir...
Why does he have a towel on his head?
'Twas the style at the time! At least for academics who didn't want to wear a wig (which was also the style at the time).
Do you expect such a guy to be normal?
Ironically he seems to have been one of the most normal historical people in general:
"Euler was known as a generous and kind person, not neurotic as seen in some geniuses, keeping his good-natured disposition even after becoming entirely blind."
Weirdest thing i can find about him is that he married his wife's half-sister after his wife died, which is only slightly "huh" worthy.