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ahartmetzyesterday at 9:46 AM1 replyview on HN

If you want other people to name something after you, you have to give it a name they have reason to replace.


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JadeNByesterday at 5:25 PM

I believe that Banach called the spaces now named after him "spaces of type B," presumably to make a stab at modesty.