User:Charles R Greathouse IV/Vanity

As the Style Sheet says:

Avoid vanity: do not name the sequence after yourself (or your family members, your friends, etc.).

I've collected here some examples and non-examples for my own purposes. Below, I use "discoverer" loosely; sometimes the sequence was known or 'obvious', but the named mathematician discovered properties which made it interesting.

Of course, the discoverer is often not unique; many of these had been discovered before, or were otherwise misnamed. In some cases the person was wrongly attributed the discovery, but the name stuck. See Wikipedia's List of misnamed theorems for some examples.

Non-examples

Named after discoverer

This is a list of sequences named after a discoverer by the mathematical community. In several cases the particular name has been codified by the OEIS. Note that the concept of "discovery" in mathematics is very wide, and this list follows this expansive view rather than attempting to determine which of various candidates is most worthy of being considered "discoverer".

Sequence	Name	Named for	Notes
A000045	Fibonacci numbers	Fibonacci (Leonardo of Pisa)
A000058	Sylvester's sequence	James Joseph Sylvester
A000108	Catalan numbers	Eugène Charles Catalan
A000129	Pell numbers	John Pell
A000134	Positive zeros of Bessel function of order 0	Friedrich Bessel	also A000155, A000167, A000175, A000249, A000275, A000331, A000369, A000806, etc.
A000140	Kendall-Mann numbers	Maurice Kendall and Henry Mann
A000215	Fermat numbers	Pierre de Fermat
A000372	Dedekind numbers	Richard Dedekind	also A003182, A007153, A014466
A000658	Strehl's sequence	Volker Strehl[1]
A000670	Fubini numbers	Guido Fubini
A000789	Ramsey numbers	Frank P. Ramsey	also A006672
A000795	Salié numbers	Hans Salié	also A005647, A065547, A098435
A000905	Hamilton numbers	William Rowan Hamilton
A000926	Euler's "numerus idoneus"	Leonhard Euler
A000957	Fine's sequence	Terrence L. Fine
A000978	Wagstaff numbers	Samuel S. Wagstaff, Jr.	also A000979
A001006	Motzkin numbers	Theodore Motzkin
A001008	Wolstenholme numbers	Joseph Wolstenholme	also A007406, A007408, A088164, A119621
A001013	Jordan-Polya numbers	George Pólya and Camille Jordan
A001045	Jacobsthal sequence	Ernst Jacobsthal	also A048669, A048670
A001190	Wedderburn-Etherington numbers	Joseph Wedderburn and Ivor Malcolm Haddon Etherington
A001220	Wieferich primes	Arthur Wieferich
A001286	Lah numbers	Ivo Lah	also A001754, A001755, A001777, A001778, A111597, A111598, A111599, A111600
A001316	Gould's sequence	Henry W. Gould
A001348	Mersenne numbers	Marin Mersenne
A001462	Golomb's sequence	Solomon W. Golomb
A001608	Perrin sequence	François Olivier Raoul Perrin
A001620	Euler-Mascheroni constant	Leonhard Euler and Lorenzo Mascheroni
A002004	Davenport-Schinzel numbers	Harold Davenport and Andrzej Schinzel	also A005004, A005005, A005006, A005280, A005281
A002034	Kempner numbers	Aubrey J. Kempner
A002064	Cullen numbers	James Cullen
A002068	Wilson remainders	John Wilson	also A007540, A007619, A157250
A002083	Narayana-Zidek-Capell numbers	Tadepalli Venkata Narayana, James Victor Zidek, and P. Capell
A002210	Khintchine's constant	Aleksandr Khinchin
A002216	Harary-Read numbers	Frank Harary and Ronald C. Read
A002315	NSW numbers	Morris Newman, Daniel Shanks and Hugh C. Williams	also A088165
A002321	Mertens' function	Franz Mertens
A002487	Stern's diatomic sequence	Moritz Abraham Stern	also A005230, A042978
A002661	Least integer having Radon random number n	Johann Radon	also A101119, A209675
A002736	Apéry numbers	Roger Apéry	also A005258, A005429, A005430; note A002117 is officially zeta(3) rather than Apéry's constant in the OEIS
A002858	Ulam numbers	Stanislaw Ulam
A002895	Domb numbers	Cyril Domb
A002954	Smallest number such that n-th iterate of Chowla function is 0	Sarvadaman Chowla	also A048050, A054013, A054014, A054015, A054017, A054020, A054021, A054022, A054023, etc.
A002997	Carmichael numbers	Robert Daniel Carmichael
A003136	Loeschian numbers	August Lösch
A003173	Heegner numbers	Kurt Heegner
A003261	Woodall (or Riesel) numbers	H. J. Woodall or Hans Riesel	also A050918
A003278	Szekeres's sequence	George Szekeres
A003458	Erdős-Selfridge function	Paul Erdős and John Selfridge
A003484	Radon function, also called Hurwitz-Radon numbers	Johann Radon and Adolf Hurwitz	also A003485, A034584
A003957	Dottie number	Dottie
A004231	Ackermann's sequence	Wilhelm Ackermann	also A143796
A005044	Alcuin's sequence	Alcuin of York
A005130	Robbins numbers	David P. Robbins
A005132	Recamán's sequence	Bernardo Recamán Santos
A005235	Fortunate numbers	Reo Fortune
A005282	Mian-Chowla sequence	Abdul Majid Mian and Sarvadaman Chowla
A006255	Ron Graham's sequence	Ronald Graham
A006509	Cald's sequence	Francis Cald
A006720	Somos-4 sequence	Michael Somos	many others
A006752	Catalan's constant	Eugène Charles Catalan
A007318	Pascal's triangle read by rows	Blaise Pascal	many others
A007434	Jordan function J_2(n)	Camille Jordan	also A059376, A059377, A059378, A059387, A069091, A069092, A069093, A069094, A069095
A007458	Order of group of n X n X n Rubik cube	Ernő Rubik	many others
A007459	Higgs' primes	Denis Higgs
A007850	Giuga numbers	Giuseppe Giuga
A008301	Poupard's triangle	Christiane Poupard
A008302	Triangle of Mahonian numbers	Percy Alexander MacMahon
A008683	Möbius function mu(n)	August Ferdinand Möbius	many others
A000931	Padovan sequence	Richard Padovan
A014586	Nim-Grundy function	Patrick Michael Grundy	also A019307, A019591, A033623, A036685, A036686, A054043, A054044, A054045, A054046, A069001, etc.
A016014	Proth numbers	François Proth	also A080076
A016105	Blum numbers	Manuel Blum
A018804	Pillai's arithmetical function	Subbayya Sivasankaranarayana Pillai	also A066352, A063980
A022493	Fishburn numbers	Peter C. Fishburn
A033548	Honaker primes	G. L. Honaker, Jr.
A037077	MRB constant	Marvin Ray Burns	also A160755, A173273. Named by Simon Plouffe (first as Marvin Ray Burns' Constant, later shortened to MRB constant)
A038219	Ehrenfeucht-Mycielski sequence	Andrzej Ehrenfeucht and Jan Mycielski
A047812	Parker's partition triangle	E. T. Parker
A048736	Dana Scott's sequence	Dana Scott
A048992	Hannah Rollman's numbers	Hannah Rollman
A051015	Zeisel numbers	Helmut Zeisel
A051254	Mills primes	William H. Mills
A052427	Baxter-Hickerson numbers	Dean Robert Hickerson and Lew Baxter
A053012	Platonic numbers	Plato
A054639	Queneau numbers	Raymond Queneau	sometimes also known as Queneau–Daniel numbers
A057588	Kummer numbers	Ernst Kummer
A059756	Erdos-Woods numbers	Paul Erdős and Alan Robert Woods
A060941	Duchon's numbers	Philippe Duchon
A061783	Luhn primes	Hans Peter Luhn
A063170	Schenker sums with n-th term	Hank Schenker	also A219546
A064152	Erdos primes	Paul Erdős
A071336	Number of vertices of Goldberg-Casper-Klug pseudo-icosahedra	Michael Goldberg, Donald Casper, and Aaron Klug
A074962	Glaisher-Kinkelin constant	James Whitbread Lee Glaisher and Hermann Kinkelin
A076046	Ramanujan-Nagell numbers	Srinivasa Ramanujan and Trygve Nagell
A076337	Riesel numbers	Hans Riesel
A076847	Ramanujan function tau(p)	Srinivasa Ramanujan	many others
A076980	Leyland numbers	Paul Leyland	also A094133
A080262	Cunningham numbers	Allan Joseph Champneys Cunningham
A083207	Zumkeller numbers	Reinhard Zumkeller
A086886	Ljungstrand's sequence	Erik Ljungstrand
A090822	Gijswijt's sequence	Dion C. Gijswijt
A091522	A Graham-Pollak sequence	Ronald Graham and Henry O. Pollak	Also A091523, A091524, A100671, A100673; note that A001521, "the" Graham-Pollak sequence, is not called the Graham-Pollak sequence in the OEIS
A099054	Arshon's sequence	S. E. Arshon
A104016	Devaraj numbers	Agaram Kandadai Devaraj
A106108	Rowland's prime-generating sequence	Eric S. Rowland
A109611	Chen primes	Chen Jingrun
A115569	Lynch-Bell numbers	Stephen Lynch and Andrew Bell
A118227	Cahen's constant	Eugène Cahen
A125143	Almkvist-Zudilin numbers	Gert Almkvist and Wadim Zudilin
A135529	Guy Steele's sequence GS(4,5)	Guy L. Steele Jr.	also A135533, A135542
A143797	Ackermann-Buck function	Wilhelm Ackermann and Robert Creighton Buck
A158079	Marcus Du Sautoy's sequences of symmetries	Marcus du Sautoy
A163973	Van der Pauw's constant	Leo J. van der Pauw
A165255	Solinas primes	Jerome A. Solinas
A167268	Janet's sequence	Charles Janet
A177143	Pasquale's sequence	Pasquale Malpeso
A177834	Opmanis's sequence	Mārtiņš Opmanis
A177865	Polya-Vinogradov numbers	George Pólya and Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov (Ива́н Матве́евич Виногра́дов)
A180874	Lassalle's sequence	Michel Lassalle
A181391	Van Eck's sequence	Jan Ritsema van Eck
A182523	Rademacher's sequence	Hans Rademacher
A185086	Fouvry-Iwaniec primes	Étienne Fouvry and Henryk Iwaniec
A185311	Keränen's abelian squarefree endomorphism of size 85	Veikko Keränen	also A185312
A187595	Bernoulli-Kervaire-Milnor numbers	Jacob Bernoulli, Michel Kervaire, and John Milnor (the latter two as discoverers)
A194472	Erdős-Nicolas numbers	Paul Erdős and Jean-Louis Nicolas
A197630	Lerch quotients of odd primes	Mathias Lerch	also A197631, A197632
A200216	Danilov's sequence	L. V. Danilov (Л. В. Данилов)	also A200217 and A200218
A216868	Nicolas's sequence	Jean-Louis Nicolas	also A218245
A221286	Vsemirnov's sequence	Maxim Vsemirnov
A224749	Vauban's sequence	Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban
A226898	Hooley's Delta function	Christopher Hooley
A226903	Shiraishi numbers	Shiraishi Nagatada (白石 長忠; Shiraishi Chochu)
A242679	Bobo numbers	E. Ray Bobo
A249357	Fibonacci-Zumkeller numbers	Reinhard Zumkeller and Fibonacci (the former as discoverer)
A256627	Moessner's magic square	Alfred Moessner
A258117	The Heinz numbers	Alois P. Heinz
A259679	Lampard's constant	Doug G. Lampard
A261532	Hall's sequence	James S. Hall
A263883	Ivanov's number	Oleg A. Ivanov
A268642	Seelmann's sequence	David Seelmann
A273774	Jevon's number	William Stanley Jevons
A274628	Nathanson's orphan-counting function	Melvyn B. Nathanson
A330503	Number of Sós permutations	Vera T. Sós

Named after earlier researcher

This is a list of sequences named after an earlier researcher or researchers who inspired the sequence with related work.

Sequence	Name	Named for	Notes
A002144	Pythagorean primes	Pythagoras of Samos
A003575	Dowling numbers	T. A. Dowling	also A003576, A003577, A003578, A003579, A003580, A003581, A003582, A007405
A004002	Benford numbers	Frank Benford
A006862	Euclid numbers	Euclid
A006890	Feigenbaum bifurcation velocity	Mitchell Feigenbaum
A006972	Lucas-Carmichael numbers	Édouard Lucas and Robert Daniel Carmichael
A006992	Bertrand primes	Joseph Louis François Bertrand
A118327	Khinchin primes	Aleksandr Khinchin
A120847	Klarner-Rado primes	David A. Klarner and Richard Rado
A014551	Jacobsthal-Lucas numbers	Ernst Jacobsthal and Édouard Lucas
A053341	Euclid-Pocklington primes	Euclid and Henry Cabourn Pocklington
A066413	Eisenstein-Mersenne primes	Gotthold Eisenstein and Marin Mersenne
A101624	Stern-Jacobsthal numbers	Moritz Abraham Stern and Ernst Jacobsthal
A174429	Collatz-Fibonacci numbers	Lothar Collatz and Fibonacci
A176942	Champernowne primes	D. G. Champernowne
A182300	Gaussian-Mersenne primes	Carl Friedrich Gauss and Marin Mersenne
A196230	Euler primes	Leonhard Euler
A262961	Crandall numbers	Richard Crandall

Named after others

This is a list of sequences named after someone unrelated to the work, but also not a friend or relative of a discoverer.

Sequence	Name	Named for	Notes
A006145	Ruth-Aaron numbers	Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron	also A006146, A039752
A342002	Čiurlionis sequence	Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis

Named after place, legend, etc.

This is a list of sequences not named after people, or after fictional or legendary people, but with the potential for confusion.

Sequence	Name	Named for	Notes
A006345	Linus sequence	Linus van Pelt	named by Nathaniel Hellerstein
A006346	Sally sequence	Sally Brown	named by Nathaniel Hellerstein
A072274	Ormiston prime pairs	Ormiston College	named by Andy Edwards ("for want of a better name") when teaching there
A101110	First Beale cipher	Thomas J. Beale (see Beale ciphers)	also A101111, A101112
A174541	Baron Munchhausen's sequence	Baron Munchhausen	also A166623, A186313
A255899	Mrs. Miniver's constant	Mrs. Miniver (see Mrs. Miniver's problem)
A256060	Queen Dido's puzzle	Dido of Carthage
A256590	Base-2 Reacher numbers	Jack Reacher	named by Jeffrey Shallit
A277402	3-Portolan numbers	portolan charts	named by Ethan Beihl
A135318	Kentucky-2 sequence	Kentucky	Named for the home state of one of the authors, possibly Catral

Examples

This is a list of sequences apparently named after themselves by a discoverer. Usually these names are not appropriate for the OEIS. (These sequences, being in the OEIS, are presumably exceptions.) Many of these sequences are recreational mathematics.

Sequence	Name	Named for	Notes
A001101	Moran numbers	Bill Moran
A003624	Duffinian numbers	L. Richard Duffy
A006886	Kaprekar numbers	Dattaraya Ramchandra Kaprekar
A019518	Smarandache-Wellin numbers	Florentin Smarandache and Paul R. Wellin
A035312	Zorach additive triangle	Alex Zorach
A036057	Friedman numbers	Erich Friedman
A064164	EHS numbers	Paul Erdős, George E. Hardy, and Mathukumalli V. Subbarao
A080867	Dorey's period-90 sequence	Laurent Dorey
A106007	Coster numbers	Matthijs Coster
A247698	Brady numbers	Brady Haran

This is a list of sequences apparently named after family members, friends, etc. Usually these names are not appropriate for the OEIS. (These sequences, being in the OEIS, are presumably exceptions.)

• A042947 Gilda's numbers
• A099542 Rhonda numbers

Former examples

This is a list of sequences formerly named after family members, friends, etc.

• A093069 Kynea numbers
• A091514 Kynea primes
• A093112 Carol numbers
• A091516 Carol primes

Unknown

I don't know who discovered or named these sequences.

• A002515 Lucasian primes
• A048992 Hannah Rollman's numbers (possibly named by the OEIS contributor, Bernardo Recamán)
• A125138 Smarandache-Wagstaff function