Timeline for Origins of Mathematical Symbols/Names
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| Mar 19, 2018 at 4:03 | comment | added | Francois Ziegler | Related: What is the historical origin for the use of the symbol ∂ in topology? | |
| Dec 10, 2009 at 20:48 | comment | added | Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson | Also, boundary is Rand in german, with boundaries translating to Ränder. | |
| Dec 9, 2009 at 9:06 | comment | added | Lennart Meier | Probably one reason for using the first letters of the German words here is that in English 'cycle' and 'chains' have the same first letter. | |
| Dec 9, 2009 at 8:40 | comment | added | Konrad Voelkel | Z is for "Zykel" which means cycles, and B is for "Bilder" which means "images". (I'm german and that is what I learned in my german algebraic topology class) | |
| Dec 9, 2009 at 4:23 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Anton Geraschenko | ||
| Dec 9, 2009 at 3:34 | history | answered | liuyao | CC BY-SA 2.5 |