Timeline for Why are Thompson's groups called $F$, $T$ and $V$?

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Sep 3, 2020 at 9:34	vote	accept	AGenevois
Sep 3, 2020 at 9:33	answer	added	AGenevois		timeline score: 5
Sep 2, 2020 at 13:27	answer	added	Matt Zaremsky		timeline score: 26
May 11, 2019 at 16:37	comment	added	user35370		Looking at the notes, where past naming is discussed, I am guessing $F$ came from finiteness properties ($FP_\infty$) and for some reason it stuck
May 11, 2019 at 12:15	comment	added	YCor		I think that $V$ was initially denoted as $G$ (it's the case in Higman's 1974 notes, where he denotes $V_{n,r}$ the free $n$-Jónsson-Tarski algebra on $r$ generators and $G_{n,r}$ its automorphism group, known as Thompson-Higman group now).
May 11, 2019 at 11:12	comment	added	YCor		Note: there are several Richard Thompson referred in MathSciNet; the concerned one is Richard J. Thompson.
May 11, 2019 at 10:41	history	edited	YCor		edited tags
May 11, 2019 at 10:40	comment	added	AGenevois		The groups I am referring to are those described here: Introductory notes on Richard Thompson's groups.
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May 10, 2019 at 23:34	history	asked	AGenevois	CC BY-SA 4.0