Paul Erdos

Some idiosyncratic elements of Erdős' vocabulary:

• children were referred to as epsilons (because in mathematics, particularly calculus, an arbitrarily small positive quantity is commonly denoted ε);
  
• women were "bosses";
  
• men were "slaves";
  
• people who stopped doing math had "died";
  
• people who died had "left";
  
• alcoholic drinks were "poison";
  
• music was "noise";
  
• people who had married were "captured";
  
• people who had divorced were "liberated" and
  
• to give a mathematical lecture was "to preach".

source: Wikipedia