the most undignified last names in mathematics:
tits
wiener
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tits and wiener worked in completely different fields which is unfortunate because otherwise they could've cowritten some papers together. just imagine it. we could've had "the tits-wiener theorem"
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I'm my department we had professors Cockburn, Gay, and Manlove.
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there's a wall at MIT that has the name of some former president of MIT in big letters and his name is
RICHARD COCKBURN MACLAURIN