Mathematicians should stop naming things after each other
Hard disagree.<p>Once you get to the advanced levels of <i>any</i> field, terminology being "accessible" doesn't really matter, but being precise <i>does</i>.<p>Areas like philosophy and law actually <i>suffer</i> in my opinion when they overload common words with uncommon meanings, or descend into weird disambiguations that depend on suffixes.<p>For example, in philosophy there's "contractarianism" and "contractualism", and trying to remember which is the general term and which refers to a specific theory drives me nuts. (If "contractualism" were just known as "Scanlon's theory" it would be a lot easier.)<p>Naming things after their creator is actually super-helpful because it's really easy to disambiguate, helps situate things historically, and once you're at that level there often isn't a single unique word or phrase that can easily encapsulate the idea anyways and isn't easily confused with something else.