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

submitted 9 months ago by nodimetotie@lemmy.world to c/germany@feddit.de

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[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.de 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months 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@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

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

[–] nodimetotie@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.de 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

And don't forget the famous Binomi brothers.

[–] nodimetotie@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months 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...

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.de 2 points 9 months ago

They've discovered the binomial formulas too.