Mathematicians should stop naming things after each other
Hard disagree.Once you get to the advanced levels of any field, terminology being "accessible" doesn't really matter, but being precise does.Areas like philosophy and law actually suffer in my opinion when they overload common words with uncommon meanings, or descend into weird disambiguations that depend on suffixes.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.)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.