While writing a recent post, I had to decide whether to mention that Nicolaus Bernoulli had written his letter posing the St. Petersburg problem specifically to Pierre Raymond de Montmort, given that my audience and I probably have no other shared semantic anchor for Pierre’s existence, and he doesn’t visibly appear elsewhere in the story.
I decided Yes. I think the idea of awarding credit to otherwise-silent muses in general is interesting.
While writing a recent post, I had to decide whether to mention that Nicolaus Bernoulli had written his letter posing the St. Petersburg problem specifically to Pierre Raymond de Montmort, given that my audience and I probably have no other shared semantic anchor for Pierre’s existence, and he doesn’t visibly appear elsewhere in the story.
I decided Yes. I think the idea of awarding credit to otherwise-silent muses in general is interesting.
If there is anything potentially interesting for the audience about Pierre Raymond de Montmort, you could also put a sentence or two in a footnote.