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[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

No one means Laplace the person if they say Laplace. And the same for Lagrange though that's usually only Lagrange points and Laplace is mostly the distribution but also other stuff. Very little of mathematics is named for women because of misogyny. The only thing that comes to mind is Noether's theorem and that's not something you come across often. We have Pythagoras but not Hypathia. Einstein but not Maric. At least Lovelace is as famous as Babbage.

[–] someacnt@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Dunno, Noetherian ring comes up every time commutative algebra is involved.

[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

I love mathematicians and I love that this is what they came up for with regard to applications of ring theory:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_theory#Applications

[–] Dadifer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

The Lagrangian is not just a place in space.