Vol. 5/2009 - Facultatea de Litere

- adjective + eponym + eponym, e.g., cubical Dold-Kan theorem, arithmetic Riemann-Roch
theorem
- adjective + eponym + noun + noun, e.g., modified Wigner distribution function
- adjective + eponym + eponym + noun, e.g., Relativistic Bret-Wigner distribution
- eponymic set phrase + preposition (possessive ‘of’) + eponymous compound, e.g., Neron-
Severi group of Kummer surfaces, the Brauer group of Enriques surface, non-trivial Galois action of
Gal, Shioda’s theory of Mordell-Weil lattices, Weyl vector of a compact Lie group, Robert-Trautman
equations of Petrov type III.
Mathematical eponyms may have synonymous forms which are either other eponymic
structures or phrases made up of common words only. Thus, according to the corpus
documentation sources, the Wiener equation is defined to be a simple Maxwell-Lorentz theory,
while the Weyl’s paradox is properly the Grelling-Nelson paradox. Equally, the Ore polynomials
are also known as skew polynomials, whereas the Weyl sum is described as a type of exponential
sum. The ‘s possessive formulas are very few in number and used more often than implicit
possessive patterns; the Lorentz’s theory is more frequent than the theory of Lorentz.
A particular feature of scientific eponyms is their reduction to initial letters in case of
longer syntagms. Thus, as a first example, we suggest the syntagms GKO coset construction
(