There's something I really like about how, in the sciences, so many things get named after people from so many different cultures that you're routinely introduced to new names just from reading about stuff
Like, reading about chemistry and you come across the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction. Who (in the english-speaking world) had ever heard the names Belousov or Zhabotinsky before learning about that? Or in physics, Faddeev-Popov ghosts. Or Zermelo-Frenkel set theory in mathematics.
they could have at least called it Jan notation, after his first name. Jan is not a difficult name at all
@Felthry some favorites of mine:
Mohorovičić discontinuity
Chandrasekhar limit
@starkatt Chandrasekhar is a fantastic name. I don't know what it means, but it's one of those words that just _sounds_ beautiful.
But then you come across the Chinese Remainder Theorem, so named because no one in the western world can apparently pronounce/remember the name Qin Jiushao.
And Polish notation, so named because no one outside of Poland can pronounce/remember the name Łukasiewicz.