# Misspelling of Cauchy-Schwarz

As a comment of Dennis Serre, the correct spelling of Cauchy-Schwarz is Cauchy-Schwarz (not Cauchy-Schwartz):

The spelling is Cauchy-Schwarz, from Hermann Schwarz. If you are interested in Fourier transform and distributions instead, then you probably mean Laurent Schwartz.

A simple search gives us 72 results for Cauchy-Schwartz in MO, see here. Is there a way to correct this misspelled word without bumping? Or should an ordinary user correct this misspelled word?

• Personally, I would fix it on newly written or edited posts and otherwise leave it. It is unfortunate but there is no cause for confusion, and I prefer not to clutter the main page with edits. – Mike Miller Oct 29 '18 at 15:38
• This seems like the kind of stuff we can request the developers to run an automated search/replace and not bump posts. I'd guess that it would be better if we can find a few other commonly misspelled phrases or some other variants of "C-S" (e.g. with en-dash or em-dash or no dash). – Asaf Karagila Oct 29 '18 at 16:26
• Could you please clarify what you mean by saying: "Community user (machine) in MO corrected some similar spelling"? I am unaware of some edits which were done automatically (and without bumping) with two exceptions: One of them was change from http to https (around March/April 2017?) and the other one was the move from Meta Stack Overflow to Meta Stack Exchange (March/April 2014?). In fact, due to some mistakes the latter caused some bumping due to some bugs. – Martin Sleziak Oct 29 '18 at 17:07
• Some edits may appear as if they were done by community user, but there was actually a human actor behind them. (IIRC those are edits suggested by anonymous user and also if reviewer chooses "Approve and Edit" when reviewing a suggested edit.) For more details, see: Modified by Community. – Martin Sleziak Oct 29 '18 at 17:08
• @MartinSleziak: Thanks for your explanations. I edited the question, accordingly – Mahdi Oct 29 '18 at 17:35
• I do not know the whether it is likely that SE will be willing to do something like this using some automation. However, I will at least add links related to manual edits. The FAQ entry Editing etiquette touches also misspellings. Probably this is also relevant: Do we have an unofficial quota on how many old questions one should bump for minor edits in a single day? (And of course, implementing this feature request would make things easier: Minor edits, subject to review.) – Martin Sleziak Oct 29 '18 at 17:50
• @AsafKaragila When you suggest to collect some common misspellings, you mean collecting frequently misspelled words in general (such as continuous $\to$ continuous) or just names of mathematicians (such as Haussdorff $\to$ Hausdorff)? Would you include also stuff such as Erdos $\to$ Erdős? In case it is useful, some names which are often misspelled are mentioned in this post on Mathematics Meta: Searching for accented characters is too strict. – Martin Sleziak Oct 30 '18 at 7:50
• Does it make sense to correct Cauchy-Schwarz without correcting the other incorrect Schwartz/Schwarz confusions? I say, make such minor corrections only when the post is bumped to the front page for some other reason. – Gerald Edgar Nov 1 '18 at 13:06
• @MartinSleziak: Your example "(such as continuous → continuous)" seems to have a mis-misspelling. – jeq Nov 1 '18 at 15:06
• @jeq Sorry, I meant continous. – Martin Sleziak Nov 1 '18 at 15:21
• @jeq, looks like it was a missed mis-misspelling. :-) – LSpice Nov 2 '18 at 17:23