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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Surely you can find some contrived connection between their works and prove at least a trivial theorem just so you can name it that?
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it's rough man. tits was a group theorist and wiener did work in like stochastic processes and invented cybernetics and stuff 🤔
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Oh that wiener, from my neck of the woods... something like lie groups of nonlinear filters yada yada might work 😎arxiv.org/pdf/1804.02414
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