Basic Mathematical Alphabets, The DML

Basic Mathematical Alphabets

The Dead Mathematicians List, or,

`E' is for Euler!

by Shawn, Walt, Steve, and Robbie

If you don't know all (well, at least 23) of these, then twelve whippings with a wet noodle for you! Everyone should be teaching this to his/her kids, too.

A  is for Abel, Niels Henrik! [Abel]
B  is for Banach, Stefan! [Banach]
C  is for Cauchy, Augustin Louis! [Cauchy]
D  is for Dirichlet, Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune! [Dirichlet]
E  is for Euler, Leonhard! [Euler]
F  is for Fourier, Jean Baptiste Joseph! [Fourier]
G  is for Gauss, Johann Carl Friedrich! [Gauss]
H  is for Hilbert, David! [Hilbert]
I  is for Ingham, Albert Edward! [Ingham]
J  is for Jacobi, Karl Gustav Jacob! [Jacobi]
K  is for Kolomogorov, Andrey Nikolayevich! [Kolmogorov]
L  is for Lebesgue, Henri Léon! [Lebesgue]
M  is for Markov, Andrei Andreyevich! [Markov]
N  is for Noether, Emmy Amalie! [Noether, Emmy]
O  is for Osgood, William Fogg! [Osgood]
P  is for Picard, Charles Émile! [Picard, Emile]
Q  is for Quetelet, Lambert Adolphe Jacques! [Quetelet]
R  is for Riemann, Georg Friedrich Bernhard! [Riemann]
S  is for Schwarz, Karl Herman Amandus! [Schwarz]
T  is for Tarski, Alfred! [Tarski]
U  is for Urysohn, Pavel Samuilovich! [Urysohn]
V  is for Vitali, Giuseppe! [Vitali]
W  is for Weierstrass, Karl Theodor Wilhelm! [Weierstrass]
X  is for Xenocrates, of Chalcedon! [Xenocrates]
Y  is for Young, William Henry! [Young]
Z  is for Zermelo, Ernst Friedrich Ferdinand! [Zermelo]