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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_named_after_Leon...

> Many of these entities have been given simple and ambiguous names such as Euler's function, Euler's equation, and Euler's formula.

> In an effort to avoid naming everything after Euler, some discoveries and theorems are attributed to the first person to have proved them after Euler.




You know you've made it when you need a Wikipedia article to keep track of what you've done. Gauss' is similar, if maybe a bit shorter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_named_after_Car...




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