Important and Cool (or, in some cases, not cool) People in Mathematics! (and other areas)

A little introduction is in order, since you all know that I always feel the need to add a little introduction. This list began last year when Priyanka, Ting Ting, and I were in calculus. It all started when we were discussing the Liebniz notation for the second derivative when Priyanka turned to me and said "He was a loony." So, we started writing "Liebniz was a loony" on everything. Then, we discovered that the other important people in mathematics could have equally or even more interesting of alliterated names. From that we formed the following list. Some of the names are good, some are bad. If you recognize these people and want to suggest a better name, please feel free to send me an email at anisa at deviating dot org. Here we go:

Leibniz was a loony.
Random-Rectangled Riemann
Loopy-Limited L'Hôpital
Leftover 'Lynomial LaGrange
Mathematically Mischievous May-I-Mooch Maclaurin
Silly Sadistically Summing Simpson
Tricky-Termed Taylor
Promiscuous 'Potenuse Pythagoras
Nutty Newton (From the mercury poisoning)
Nefarious Napier (Or Naughty Napier. We can't think of anything for him, so please make a suggestion!)
If you pronounce "Euler" right... Euler the Toiler and the Trousers-Soiler
If you pronounce "Euler" wrong... Useless Euler
Complexly Calculus-Crazed Cauchy
Deviously Doubtful and Dubiously Denying DeMorgan
Charge-Carrying Coulomb
Buoyant Bernoulli

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