The STEM Naming Double Standard is kinda unfortunate…

[Parostem]

I am reminded of Stigler's law, which states that no discovery is ever actually named after the first peson to discover it. Appropriately, Stephen Stigler was not the first person to notice this (it was Robert K. Merton, though doubtlessly someone else noticed before him too), and so the name "Stigler's Law" is an example of Stigler's law.

[jackyex]

In Brazil the Quadratic formula is Known as Bhaskara's Formula, wrong Indian mathematician but they got the spirit I guess...?

[elaestioko]

i hate it too...good thing you're making a shout out ir calling it out 🙌🏆

[ruby_RSound]

ancient egyptians: *tell a joke*
Pythagoras: *tells the same joke but louder*

[ambunt]

Euler has too much stuff named after him anyways

[theLyricalPhoton]

The quadratic formula is called "Shridharacharya's method" in India

[capotthomas]

We learn it as Al-Kashi's theorem in France ! We also say Snell-Descartes but that's a whole other story

[kathrynpearce]

I get that it’s a double standard, but I think we should correct it in the other direction: name everything the “non-European” way by calling things more or less what they are, instead of naming them after somebody

[SalehElm]

The photo shown at 0:16 is of Hasan Ibn Al-Haytham (from Basrah, Iraq 965-1040 AD). Mathematician, Astronomer, Physicist, and the father of modern optics. His numerous work influenced Newton, Kepler, Descartes, Galilie and many other scientists and mathematicians. One of his most influential work is Kitab al-Manazir ( or the Book of Optics).

[griffyy_smiffyy]

pascals triangle and the pythagorean theorem keep getting discovered like six times independently of one anothe

[Osindileyo]

It’s a classic case of those who write history decide what gets said.

[dldldldldldldldlldld]

The Pythagorean theorem is called what it is because while Pythagoras was in Egypt he saw that everyone was using that law but no one actually knew why. He came to prove it, that's why it's named after him.

[muddystick]

I'm glad you mentioned the Pythagorean Theorem.

Pythagoras never claimed to have invented it, Pythagoras spent his time travelling the known world, and bringing their ideas back to Greece.

[wastedviking]

You forget that discoveries were also forgotten and rediscovered all the time .

[SepehrGholami-wr]

In Iran, we call Pascal's triangle Khayyam's triangle. Because he discovered it before Pascal.

[ninguem]

In Brazilian Portuguese we call the quadratic formula "Fórmula de Bhaskara". Don't even remember who this Bhaskara guy is

[sofiadesentre]

Bro was looking for an excuse to flex his immaculate pronunciation

[RahiniDasgupta]

NOOO THATS THE SHRIDHARACHARY formula😭😭 y'all get your facts checked ugh. We in India named it after our guru

[justsomebeanz]

The quadratic formula was independently discovered in almost every culture with a notion of math

[parvgoyal]

In our Indian books quadratic formula is called Sri dharacharya formula