mojo

Wow, a different nose for every occasion... lucky guy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tycho_Brahe#Tycho.27s_nose

What happened to Tycho's nose?

Tycho Brahe actually wore a replacement nose partially made out of silver, which is why I call him "Old Goldnose". While his theories were all wrong, his observational skills were impeccable, and his data allowed Kepler to devise the laws of planetary motion.

Tycho Brahe! That's it.

Well, astronomer, more than mathematician, maybe. How the hell should I know.

For some reason I kept thinking "Tenzing Norgay," but that isn't quite the same person...

That should narrow the field.

Wow. That's more fun than ours. They were named things like Torvald, Babbage, Turing, and ... (brain freeze) who was that Dutch or Swedish mathematician with half a nose?

*thinking*

At the ISP I work for, we have a server room with computers named after various characters. One is called Mojo, and its sibling server is called Jojo.

We also have Blossom, Buttercup, Gilligan, Skipper, and, um, a bunch of others that I can't remember because I don't really work with any o' them.

Someone mentioned Mojo Jojo yesterday and I cracked up. I had forgotten all about him.

"Mohhhhjo Jojo!"