Timeline for When did the meaning of the term "metabelian" change?
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| Aug 12, 2013 at 7:52 | comment | added | Dietrich Burde | If you talk to people about meatbelian Lie algebras, they have these articles from 1973, 1977, 1999 etc. in mind, sometimes. In this sense, it still can mean $2$-step nilpotent nowadays. | |
| Aug 11, 2013 at 22:19 | comment | added | YCor | I wouldn't say "can still mean" for a paper from 1977 :) I would say that metabelian is confusing; anyway it's not universal in the sense that many people I know outside group theory (but who know what an extension of groups is) are not familiar with this term. | |
| Aug 11, 2013 at 18:24 | history | answered | Dietrich Burde | CC BY-SA 3.0 |