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Timeline for Tracing the word “form”

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Jun 15, 2020 at 7:27 history edited CommunityBot
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Feb 20, 2020 at 18:35 vote accept Francois Ziegler
Oct 29, 2017 at 22:05 history edited Francois Ziegler CC BY-SA 3.0
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Oct 29, 2017 at 13:49 comment added Francois Ziegler The quote (now literal) nicely explains Kronecker’s motives — but he must have been “blaming” someone else in 1866, before Jordan appeared. Elsewhere Brechenmacher (2007, footnote 3) describes Jordan’s 1874 switch to “form” as almost political; I wonder why he (and Jahrbuch, Kronecker) keep misquoting Christoffel’s 1868 Theorie der bilinearen Functionen as bilinearen Formen?
Oct 28, 2017 at 21:56 history edited Francois Ziegler CC BY-SA 3.0
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Oct 28, 2017 at 16:56 history edited Carlo Beenakker CC BY-SA 3.0
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Oct 28, 2017 at 16:55 comment added Carlo Beenakker indeed, this is not a literal quote but my attempt to summarize several pages of text into something that would be appropriate for the MO answer box; I have removed the "quote" formatting to avoid suggesting that this is quoted verbatim.
Oct 28, 2017 at 16:09 comment added Francois Ziegler Thank you. (Your text seems to differ significantly from both the arXiv and the published version?!)
Oct 28, 2017 at 16:08 history edited Francois Ziegler CC BY-SA 3.0
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Oct 28, 2017 at 15:36 history edited Carlo Beenakker CC BY-SA 3.0
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Oct 28, 2017 at 15:27 history answered Carlo Beenakker CC BY-SA 3.0