List of Examples of Stigler's Law - C

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• Cantor-Bernstein-Schröder theorem (also known by other variations, such as Schröder-Bernstein theorem) first proved by Richard Dedekind
• Cantor set: discovered in 1874 by Henry John Stephen Smith and introduced by German mathematician Georg Cantor 1883.
• Cartan matrices: first investigated by Wilhelm Killing.
• Cardano's formula: The solution to the cubic function, it was discovered by Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia.
• Cobb–Douglas: A production function named after Paul H. Douglas, and Charles W Cobb, developed earlier by Philip Wicksteed.
• Cooley–Tukey algorithm named after J.W. Cooley and John Tukey but invented 160 years earlier in 1805 by Carl Friedrich Gauss.
• Curie point: a critical temperature of phase change in ferromagnetism. Named after Pierre Curie, who reported it in his thesis in 1895, but the phenomenon was found by Claude Pouillet before 1832 (see the footnote on page 6 of ).
• Currying: a technique for transforming an n-arity function to a chain of functions. Named after Haskell Curry, though it was originally discovered by Moses Schönfinkel.