Timeline for Why the name "variety" and the notation "V" for zeroes of polynomials?
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| Mar 12, 2014 at 3:03 | vote | accept | pinaki | ||
| Mar 11, 2014 at 15:08 | comment | added | dadexix86 | Following your advice and after a bit of research, I can also point out that few years later (in the 1880's and 1890's) the word "varietà" was already widely used in the works (and titles) of Fano, Enriques, del Pezzo. | |
| Mar 11, 2014 at 14:04 | comment | added | dadexix86 | Thanks :) To me this makes sense, Beltrami knew the works of Riemann and so maybe he was the one who first translated to the Italian "varietà" the German "Mannigfaltigkeit". | |
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| Mar 11, 2014 at 13:57 | comment | added | abx | According to this link, the term was first used by E. Beltrami in 1869. | |
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| Mar 11, 2014 at 13:42 | history | answered | dadexix86 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |