I'm not referring to the concept itself, but its name. A good name gives intuition or just sounds fun in my opinion, or hopefully both. I'll give a few examples, that I personally like:
- Ultrametric -- or basically word of the from ultra+something else makes me feel like I'm dealing with some superfancy concept
- Baby monster group -- it is hard not to love that and monstrous moonshine
- Meataxe algorithm -- why did someone come up with that??
So what are your favourite names and what's the reason?
[link] [comments]
from math http://bit.ly/2vvjeny
Post a Comment