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> As I recall, wasn't Polish space originally called "Name" space, where
> "Name" was the name of a Polish mathematician? I thought that some non
> Polish speaker found the name hard to pronounce, so s/he came up with
> the more simply pronounced term, "Polish space."
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No, I think you confused this with "Polish notation" [and later
the modification "reverse Polish notation" used by HP calculators].
It was originally Lukasiewicz notation (probably misspelled...
see I cannot remember it either) but when English-speaking people
could not remember the name, they called it "Polish notation".
--
G. A. Edgar http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/~edgar/
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