Timeline for Origin of phrase 'natural number'
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| S Jan 5, 2021 at 15:27 | history | mod moved comments to chat | |||
| S Jan 5, 2021 at 15:27 | comment | added | Todd Trimble | Comments are not for extended discussion; this conversation has been moved to chat. | |
| Jan 3, 2021 at 19:17 | comment | added | Gerald Edgar | @dodd ... Euclid has no mention of the phrase "natural number". The OP is not about the concept, it is about the words. By the way, why are you commenting my answer, and not the original question? | |
| Jan 3, 2021 at 18:32 | comment | added | markvs | @user3482749: Read Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements by Heath T.L. (ed), books 5 and 7, | |
| Jan 3, 2021 at 16:16 | comment | added | user3482749 | @dodd No, it very much is not. | |
| Dec 26, 2020 at 9:12 | comment | added | markvs | Since Euclid proved a few well known number theory results isn't it proper to assume that he named numbers somehow? | |
| Dec 26, 2020 at 8:59 | comment | added | markvs | I think I found it in Wikipedia. | |
| Dec 26, 2020 at 8:13 | comment | added | Carlo Beenakker | @dodd -- do you have a reference for this? I could not find it. | |
| Dec 25, 2020 at 23:31 | comment | added | markvs | Euclid (the mathematician, not the city) used the term in his book. Being a Greek, he wrote φυσικός αριθμός. | |
| Dec 25, 2020 at 19:30 | comment | added | Carlo Beenakker | this 1763 quote, as well as a whole list of other quotes going back to 1484 is actually in the web page cited by the OP, I presume the OP is looking for earlier sources that are not listed there.... | |
| Dec 25, 2020 at 15:32 | comment | added | Gerald Edgar | @dodd ... The question is about "the English phrase" as well as about ancestor phrases in other languages. That 1484 is the French phrase "progression naturelle". My answer is about the English phrase "natural number". | |
| Dec 25, 2020 at 13:46 | comment | added | markvs | It does not answer the question. Must be before 1484. | |
| Dec 25, 2020 at 13:26 | history | answered | Gerald Edgar | CC BY-SA 4.0 |