Differences between Pareto Principle and Pareto Optimization problem?
In: 3
Just pointing out something that other folks didn’t explicitly say:
These are two terms both named for the same person (19th-20th-century Italian engineer & economist Vilfredo Pareto), but they’re not otherwise related to each other.
This is a common problem in the sciences, where things are often named after the person who invented, discovered, or popularized them. When the same person invents two or more things, they often get related names even if they’re not otherwise related.
That happens very often in math. [For instance,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_named_after_Leonhard_Euler#Numbers) “Euler’s constant” is a number, but is not the same as “Euler’s number”, which is not one of the “Euler numbers”, which are not the same as the “Eulerian numbers”, or the “Euler number” of a fluid under pressure, or the “Euler characteristic” (which is also a number).
Latest Answers