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What are your favorite examples of German words making it into English? (self.germany)

submitted 1 year ago by nodimetotie to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Eigenvalues and eigenvectors, which however, were not discovered by the well known mathematician Eigen. Ansatz ist also commonly used in research articles.

[–] nodimetotie 4 points 1 year ago

It's funny how both the German and English stems from the whole word.

[–] nodimetotie 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But surely eigenspaces were discovered by Dr. Eigen. Right?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And don't forget the famous Binomi brothers.

[–] nodimetotie 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Who discovered the binomial distribution? Of course. Although they are probably not as famous as Prof. Normal who came up with the Normal distribution. No, wait...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

They've discovered the binomial formulas too.