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On Wednesday 06 January 2010 03:32:43 Benoit Jacob wrote:
> Hi,
>
> as you know we have a wonderful little owl as out mascot, but so far
> it didn't have a name.
>
> Here's a proposal: let's name it Ruy ?
>
> Ruy BLAS... get it?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruy_Blas
>
> Benoit
>
You could call the owl Bertie, after David Hilbert, the guy who effectively
coined the names eigenvalue, eigenvector, etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigenvalue,_eigenvector_and_eigenspace
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hilbert