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This is the earliest reference I have located:

Minkowski-Farkas Lemma in Banach Spaces, L. Hurwicz (1952).

The same result was also referred to as the Minkowski-Farkas-Weyl theorem in the 1950's, for example in

The strong Minkowski-Farkas-Weyl theorem for vector spaces over ordered fields, A. Charnes and W.W. Cooper (1958).

The three authors are associated with this result in view of the following contributions:

  • H. Minkowski, Geometrie der Zahlen (Leipzig, 1896).
  • J. Farkas, Über die Theorie der einfachen Ungleichungen, Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik, 124, 1-27 (1902).
  • H. Weyl, Elementare Theorie der konvexen Polyeder, Comm. Helvet., 7, 290-306 (1935).
Carlo Beenakker
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