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Re: 11-gon
Posted:
Oct 31, 1994 11:16 AM
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I'm working back through my email:
Retransliteration regularly produces howlers, and there are also
many cases where a German or French transliteration of a Russian
name has become the standard English one.
Sometimes one sees both - for instance "Chebyshev" and "Tschebitscheff"
(actually I fiddled about with the end in the second case just for fun,
but I've seen things like this).
The mathematician Boris Nicolaevich Delone is an interesting case.
Many of his earlier papers were published in French, and so we have
technical terms like "Delaunay cell". Nowadays, the name is usually
given the standard transliteration "Delone", obtained directly from
the Cyrillic spelling. But his name is really the Irish name
"DeLoney" - one of his ancestors was, I believe, an Irish soldier
who was one of the many who stayed in Russia after the 1812 invasion.
John Conway
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