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Questions about the origin of mathematical terms.
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Why is Drinfeld's Zastava space called Zastava?
I'm trying to get an idea of Drinfeld's Zastava space. It seems to be an infinite-dimensional version of the flag variety, for affine Lie algebras.
But, first of all, why is it called Zastava (Заста …
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What does the word "symplectic" mean?
I know the definition of symplectic structure, symplectic group, and so on. But what does the word "symplectic" itself mean?
Meta question: I have many other mathematical words whose etymologies are …
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