Is there a version of math with better names for things? Imagine if we had "Naur loop" and "Hoare loop" instead of "for loop" and "while loop." Yet we have Cauchy–Schwarz inequality, Kullback–Leibler divergence, Euler's formula, ...
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Extended thoughts. Naming conventions that need to die: http://willcrichton.net/notes/naming-conventions-that-need-to-die/ …
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What's in a name? A lot, actually, when the name is esp., for a new idea/concept.
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My favorite are the separation axioms in topology, where they had T1, T2, T3, but then they discovered a new one they had to name T2 1/2
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Yeah, especially Since we all know that should be Type-0, Type-1
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