My algorithms are generally named // Garbage - rewrite when we have time

Yes but also no as Steve von Trig discovered it a thousand years before and of course gets none of the credit.

/ the Pythagorean Theorum is far older than Pyth.

No it was the Dutch man Piet Agoras

Yes and bluetooth was named after the famous king Harold Bluetooth

You joke, but I always like that the Poynting vector, which points in the direction of flow of an EM wave is named after John Henry Poynting.

I bet that guy was trying so hard to find a vector to get named after him.

You know, it sounds less insane when put that way.

and it was a cult?

Wait until you hear about Euclidean geometry.

Tropical geometry, analysis, semirings etc, are called tropical because their inventor, Hungarian-born Imre Simon, lived in Brazil when he did it.

Airy discs are a distortion suffered by early telescopes.

They were formally documented by George Biddel Airy.