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I believe Carl Friedrich Gauss is a close second to Euler.


For those who want to compare them:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_named_after_Leo...

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_named_after_Car...

Judged by the number of multiple-surname ‘things’ on both pages, Gauss seems to have been more of a collaborator, or more of his discoveries were also made by others at about the same time.




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