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Achievements in maths (thelemmy.club)
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[-] TachyonTele@piefed.social 70 points 1 month ago

Huh, guy did a ...couple things

I'm surprised they didn't just rename mathamatics after him and be done with it

[-] CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 40 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago

Eulerhythmics?

Sweet memes are made of this.

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago

Eulerics

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Eurythmics

Great band

[-] CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You should elaborate. Talk to me...

...like lemmings do.

[-] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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"

[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 month ago

Algebra was named after al-Jabir, whose name in Latin is Geber.

[-] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

"It is well known that our word “algebra” derives ultimately from the Arabic al-jabr, which is part of the name al-jabr wa’l-muq¯abala given to the art of algebra in medieval times. Further, the individual words al-jabr and al-muq¯abala are associated with two steps in the simplification of equations. Al-jabr is the word used in conjunction with moving subtracted quantities to the other side of the equation, and al-muq¯abala is used to combine like terms on opposite sides of the equation."

I have additional notes, if the literal source on the history of math is insufficient to convince you of the history of math.

[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

Okay, maybe I got "algebra" confused with "gibberish" qua relation to al-Jabir...

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