Timeline for Origin of the name "Torelli group"
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| Jan 21, 2014 at 0:26 | vote | accept | Bill | ||
| Jan 20, 2014 at 18:33 | history | edited | Andy Putman | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 20, 2014 at 17:46 | comment | added | Andy Putman | @abx : That's a good point, though Rauch does explicitly mention Torelli space. I also agree that the concept was "in the air" at that point. Most of the papers on Torelli space from the '60's and '70's that I am aware of were by people working in the complex analytic school (Rauch, Bers, Ahlfors, etc, together with their students). I'd be very interested in any papers on the topic from that era by people in the more "algebraic" side of the subject. | |
| Jan 20, 2014 at 17:41 | comment | added | abx | Well, Weil does not mention explicitly the Torelli space, but he defines "Torelli surfaces" (those which are parametrized by the Torelli space). So you have a point. My guess is that the idea was around, then naming it after Torelli was quite natural. | |
| Jan 20, 2014 at 17:16 | history | answered | Andy Putman | CC BY-SA 3.0 |