Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] the Rearrangement Inequality

["Christian M. Cepel" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

>From that page:

Part of scholarly writing is to verify the references, give proper credit, and spell the names correctly. There is a supposedly authoritative book on Fourier series, produced a few years ago by a distinguished publishing house, that consistently refers to "Gibb's phenomenon." It is difficult to have confidence in the mathematics of an author who is not careful enough to realize that the scientist's name is Gibbs, so the overshoot in the Fourier series of a jump function is properly "Gibbs's phenomenon."

With such examples in mind, Ralph P. Boas once wrote the following verses, titled "Spelling Lesson." 

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Wouldn't it be properly "Gibbs' Phenomenon." and not "Gibbs's Phenomenon."

Mike Miller wrote:

I had a funny stat professor years ago who told us "Some people will spell it 'Chebyshev' and others will spell it 'Tchebysheff' or 'Tchebyshoff' but there is really only one correct spelling!"  He then promptly wrote it on the board in cyrillic characters.  Maybe it's an old joke -- see the last stanza of this poem:

http://www.math.tamu.edu/~boas/courses/math696/spelling-lesson.html

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