My Father is a Chemist
My Mother is a Mathematician
They call meiron59
What is my real name?
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1$\begingroup$ @ABcDexter Why uppercase for "Father" and "Mother"? Are THEY significant? $\endgroup$– EKonsJul 7, 2016 at 10:04
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1$\begingroup$ @ΈρικΚωνσταντόπουλος There can be hints given by the OP. so we should respect the caps as provided. $\endgroup$– ABcDexterJul 7, 2016 at 10:21
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1$\begingroup$ @ABcDexter Thanks for editing by the way. $\endgroup$– JanLeeYuJul 8, 2016 at 0:46
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$\begingroup$ @ABcDexter: But the OP never capitalized "Mother"; that was entirely your invention (unless you based it on a now-deleted comment). But, now that we know the answer, it looks like the capitalization was never meant to be a hint. (If anything, IMHO, "Iron" should have been capitalized.) $\endgroup$– Peregrine RookJul 9, 2016 at 20:50
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$\begingroup$ @PeregrineRook Oh my bad. I presumed it was. $\endgroup$– ABcDexterJul 10, 2016 at 4:33
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Your name is
Felix
Because
Iron is Fe (chemical symbol) and $59$ is $LIX$ (Roman numerals)
answered Jul 7, 2016 at 7:00
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$\begingroup$ I since went to Google to see if there was a real person of the same name with parents of those professions so I could add a surname and I saw that the question is already "out there". $\endgroup$ Jul 7, 2016 at 7:14
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$\begingroup$ Do you know the original source? If so do attribute the question to them. Also, welcome to Puzzling! $\endgroup$ Jul 7, 2016 at 7:20
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11$\begingroup$ I'd be tempted to say the mother was a Historian not a Mathematician! $\endgroup$– ArthJul 7, 2016 at 13:33
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Ok, this is a slightly farfetched, but female answer
FELICIA
because
Fe(chemical symbol) + L(12) + I(9) + C(3) + I(9) + Y(25) + A(1)
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2$\begingroup$ Well, how can you remove a letter without explaining why? $\endgroup$– EKonsJul 8, 2016 at 7:56
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My Father is a Chemist
my Mother a mathematician
and they call me iron59
It has to do with chemistry and mathematics, so the first part is probably "Fe", the chemical symbol for Iron. The second part is the base 16 representation of $59$, $(EB)_{10_{16}}$. The "s" is added to look more like a name.
