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Random anecdote: 15 years ago I was starting an online community for computer science students, and needed to come up with a name. I made a survey for the community members to vote on options, with some boring ones like "CS Hub" and stuff; one of the options was "Karatsuba": I had just learned about the Karatsuba multiplication algorithm, and somehow got this idea into my head that his last name sounds cool and unique, and my online community (later grown into a ed-tech startup) should be named after this Russian mathematician.

Anatoly Karatsuba himself was already dead (he died in 2008). I emailed his daughter Yekaterina (who is also a mathematician, btw) asking for a permission to use their last name. She agreed, but asked to be extra careful about potential implicit affiliations, i.e. to be clear that the content has nothing to do with her father's research.

She also expressed an opinion that in the field of mathematics and computation, at least in Russia, actual researchers are rarely involved in writing textbooks, and the textbooks used in universities often contain conflicting or even wrong information about the authorship of research.

In the end a different name was chosen for the project.