Stigler's Law: Call a Spade a Spade
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What unites Newton’s laws, the Penrose triangle, Gaussian elimination, the Pythagorean theorem, Halley’s Comet, and the Fermi paradox? It should be obvious: they’re all things named after their discoverers... or so it seems.   Story told by Garrett Tucker.
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