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

submitted 10 months ago by nodimetotie@lemmy.world to c/germany@feddit.de

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[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.de 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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 10 months ago

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

[–] nodimetotie@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.de 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And don't forget the famous Binomi brothers.

[–] nodimetotie@lemmy.world 2 points 10 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 10 months ago

They've discovered the binomial formulas too.