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traes • yesterday at 10:56 PM • 4 replies • view on HN

Not to pick on you specifically, but as someone who spends a lot of time unproductively reading AI math discourse it's truly shocking how incapable all the supposed math enthusiasts are of spelling Riemann.


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xpct • yesterday at 11:00 PM

I just did a quick search on this and apparently the misspellings are German surnames as well:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reimann

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinmann

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lanyard-textile • yesterday at 11:19 PM

They're mathematicians, not linguists :)

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jere • yesterday at 11:52 PM

“How many Ns in Riemann?”

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broptimist • yesterday at 11:47 PM

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