Named after states who or what a mathematical object's own name honors. Wikipedia notes the Fibonacci sequence is "named after the Italian mathematician Leonardo of Pisa, also known as Fibonacci," even though the numbers themselves were "first described in Indian mathematics as early as 200 BC." This dimension separates an object's namesake from the person who actually discovered it first.
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In 1895, he published his ground-breaking paper on Analysis Situs, which introduced the concepts now known as homotopy and homology, which are now considered part of algebraic topology.
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