Stigler's Law: Call a Spade a Spade
Dec 07, 2023•9 min•Season 1Ep. 6
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Episode description
What unites Newton’s laws, the Penrose triangle, Gaussian elimination, the Pythagorean theorem, Halley’s Comet, and the Fermi paradox? It should be obvious: they’re all things named after their discoverers... or so it seems.
Story told by Garrett Tucker.
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