From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2006-08-12T08:11:01+09:00
Subject: Re: nonce

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> 
> 1. The term "eigenvector" has only become a de facto standard in English 
> fairly recently. A great deal of theoretical math done by French and 
> Russian mathematicians used non-German terminology for a somewhat 
> obvious reason before the two World Wars. When this mathematics was 
> translated into English, the term "proper vector" was heavily used, as 
> well as some others. Other instances of this phenomenon are the 
> Cauchy-Schwartz-Bunyakovsky inequality and the Gauss-Legendre least 
> squares algorithm. :)

Holy Wronskian, Batman. I haven't heard those terms since I was 20.

> 2. What's an "eigen-nonce"?

Your own personal pedophile?


Hal