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Re: most famous codiscoverer gets credit (Matthew Effect) [was: This Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics (Week 112)]
Posted:
Nov 28, 1997 6:35 AM
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Are In article <347eb06a.81621900@news.zippo.com>, quentin@inhb.co.nz (Quentin Grady) writes:
> This response CC'd by email
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> G'day G'day Bill et al,
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> Ha Ha Ha. Already the rest of you aren't at famous a Bill. <grin>
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> There are occasions when the anti-Matthews effect occurs.
> Venn was immortalised in Venn diagrams yet wasn't Euler using them in
> his writings way way before. One more attribution to Euler wouldn't
> have made much difference. To Venn it made all the difference.
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> So here is the Quentin conjecture.
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> "Attribution favours the famous till the famous becomes ubiquitous."
Are people still brought up to call the complex plane the "Argand diagram"?
I was, despite the fact that Gauss was one of the discoverers.
This seems to support Quentin's conjecture.
--
Robert Hill
University Computing Service, Leeds University, England
"Though all my wares be trash, the heart is true."
- John Dowland, Fine Knacks for Ladies (1600)
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