Timeline for Origins of Mathematical Symbols/Names
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| Apr 29 at 7:26 | comment | added | Jérôme JEAN-CHARLES | @François G. Dorais. Ferme and fermé are quite connected at the etymological and semantic level. See cnrtl.fr/etymologie/ferme//1. The common idea behind ferme (farm) and fermé (closed) is to be fixed. As you may see the etymology says that a farm was a FIXED contract. Think of a firm fruit as having no holes or as not being pitted then to me it looks topologically closed. | |
| Apr 29 at 7:16 | comment | added | Jérôme JEAN-CHARLES | @François G. Dorais Still this is not really wrong. Looking at cnrtl.fr/etymologie/ferme//1. You | |
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| May 17, 2010 at 11:30 | comment | added | Konrad Swanepoel | No, I don't; note the emoticon. (On the other hand, ferme was a mistake.) | |
| May 16, 2010 at 8:45 | comment | added | ogerard | You mean touché . Touche without accent is not an adjective but the word for a piano key, the equivalent of the english "touch" as in "the painter's delicate touch" or a hit on a target. | |
| Apr 27, 2010 at 18:53 | comment | added | Konrad Swanepoel | Touche ;) | |
| Apr 15, 2010 at 17:29 | comment | added | François G. Dorais | You're confusing fermé (closed) with ferme (firm, rigid); the accent makes a big difference! | |
| Dec 11, 2009 at 21:01 | comment | added | Qiaochu Yuan | According to Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%CE%B4_set) it comes from the German word Gebiet. | |
| Dec 11, 2009 at 20:44 | history | answered | Konrad Swanepoel | CC BY-SA 2.5 |