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From the surname of Joseph Louis François Bertrand, who conjectured the theorem, and the surname of Pafnuty Chebyshev who proved it.
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Today it means: the theorem that there is at least one prime number between n and 2n for every n>1, i.e. Full definition →
From the surname of Joseph Louis François Bertrand, who conjectured the theorem, and the surname of Pafnuty Chebyshev who proved it.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.