highpriestessofelua | Entries tagged with math

This MathOverflow thread is a goldmine. Some highlights:

Lewis Carroll invented a cute formula for determinants.
Sophie Germain published as "Monsieur Antoine Auguste Le Blanc" to hide the fact ey were a woman.
Student's t-distribution was invented by William Sealy Gosset who used the pseudonym "Student" to avoid lawsuits by Guinness, where ey worked at the time.
Isaac Newton used the pseudonym "Ieoua Sanctus Unus" in eir writing about alchemy. That means "God, unique and saint" in Latin but is also an anagram of "Isaacus Neutonus".