Dirichlet 怎么读

Dirichlet 在英语中的标准读法是 「deer ick LAY」（/ˌdɪərɪˈkleɪ/）。

Named after German mathematician Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet — ubiquitous in ML via the Dirichlet distribution and Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA, Blei/Ng/Jordan 2003). The surname LOOKS French (from 'Richelette' in French-speaking Belgium) but he lived in German lands, so two camps exist: the German-style deer-ick-LAY (hard 'k', /kleɪ/) vs the French-style deer-ish-LAY (soft 'sh', /ʃleɪ/). Final stress on -LAY; the 't' is silent in both common readings (though a minority, citing Calabi, insist on a hard final 't'). Wikipedia's own talk page never resolved it — a contributor jokes that saying it 'correctly' makes you sound wrong to most mathematicians. Wikipedia documents the English IPA as the hard-k /ˌdɪərɪˈkleɪ/; many ML practitioners say deer-ish-LAY.

其他读法：

• 「deer ish LAY」 /ˌdɪərɪˈʃleɪ/

来源：Wikipedia Talk § Pronunciation (Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet)

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