Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > But math folks usually name things after the person(s) who came > up with the idea, not just some random implementer. The idea of
Wrong: you're forgetting Stigler's Law of Misonomy (which I imagine must have NOT been discovered by Stigler...;-). The Poisson distribution was in fact described earlier by Bernoulli, Gosset's z-test is universally known as Student's t-test, etc, etc. Salsburg's delightful "The Lady Tasting Tea" has a lot of fun with Stigler's law in the footnotes...;-) Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
