Georg Frobenius was a German mathematician (1849-1917) who developed a method of solving second order linear equations in the neighborhood of a regular singular point. The general theory is called “the method of Frobenius” and it is what a mathematician would call “fairly complicated”.
Consider the equation 2x^2y” - xy’ + (1 + x)y = 0. That’s what I’m talkin’ about.
I encountered this theory in my third year of Engineering School and it was like I had struck a brick wall. I was equally fascinated and stymied. I had to either slog through the heavy math or surrender to art school; there was no other choice. But at the back of my mind I was having a Dave Barry moment, thinking: “Method of Frobenius” would be a “great name for a rock band”. So that’s what the band has been called for the past 20 years. A little reminder of how iceburgs can suddenly appear, dead ahead. And Georg Frobenius seems a suitable nom de guerre, don’t you think?
At some point I’ll make some modifications to the tinymce editor in WordPress and flog it until it supports ASCIIMath. Then we’ll have a Euler equation smack down.