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Questions of the kind "What's the name for a X that satisfies property Y?"

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Whence “uniform distribution”?

The “Earliest Uses” site suggests that the expression “uniform distribution” first appeared in Uspensky (1937), and “uniformly distributed” in Sakamoto (1943). Is that true?
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Whence “homomorphism” and “homomorphic”?

Today homomorphism (resp. isomorphism) means what Jordan (1870) had called isomorphism (resp. holoedric isomorphism). How did the switch happen? “Homomorphic” (and “homomorphism” as “property of being …
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17 votes
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Tracing the word “form”

Question: Has anyone anywhere ever discussed these choices and switches in terminology? …
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Emergence of the orthogonal group

Do we know what mathematician first considered, and perhaps named, what we call the group $\mathrm O(n)$, or $\mathrm{SO}(n)$, for some $n>3$? I mean it specifically as group (not Lie algebra) acting …
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