Timeline for What is the etymology of model?
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| Aug 3, 2012 at 11:41 | comment | added | godelian | In a logic book by Swedish author Jesper Carlström that I recently run into, it is suggested that the first usage of the word comes from Felix Klein's discovery of "models" of non euclidean geometry. He does not cite references for this, though. | |
| Apr 12, 2012 at 12:00 | comment | added | Carl Mummert | Looking through the papers in From Frege to Goedel it seems that "domain" was used instead of "model" in the late 1920s and early 1930s. | |
| Apr 2, 2012 at 8:13 | vote | accept | Fumiyo Eda | ||
| Mar 30, 2012 at 21:45 | comment | added | godelian | Concerning the last paragraph, it's interesting to note that in the cited work of Gödel, he used the term "Erfüllungssystem" (approximately "satisfactory system") to refer to what nowadays one would just call precisely "model". | |
| Mar 30, 2012 at 15:17 | history | edited | François G. Dorais | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 30, 2012 at 15:10 | history | answered | François G. Dorais | CC BY-SA 3.0 |