en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cox_ring

And a very acedemic response to ‘hehe our names say cock sucker’

I love that this originated from NJ, via Princeton and Rutgers.

This was a deliberate choice by Cox and Zucker, who, as first-year graduate students at Princeton University in 1970, conceived of the idea of coauthoring a paper for the express purpose of enabling this joke. They followed through on it five years later, as members of the faculty at Rutgers University

May their research be revered forevermore

Just gonna leave us wondering about the algorithm, eh?

In arithmetic geometry, the Cox–Zucker machine is an algorithm created by David A. Cox and Steven Zucker. This algorithm determines whether a given set of sections[further explanation needed] provides a basis (up to torsion) for the Mordell–Weil group of an elliptic surface E → S, where S is isomorphic to the projective line.

Or was that just me?

A thing to note is that they didn’t name the algorithm. It was 5 years later when Charles Schwartz gave it that name

If Deadwood had been set in France.

Fair enough

Scientists are dorks

Some other mathematicians took another set of work by Cox and created the Cox Ring.