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Origin of the Term "Entire Function" (ganze Funktion, fonction entière, etc.)

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Who coined the term "uniform" as in "uniform distribution"?

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What is the history of the Scheme theory before Grothendieck?

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Why are the categories of category theory called "category"?

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Historically, when were the terrestrial planets first called terrestrial planets?

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Origin of the concept of "impulse"

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From where did the term "context-free" originate?

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Katz's symbol 兄 for Gauss-Manin connections

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Why is the Mean Value Theorem (of holomorphic functions) called "Gauss's"?

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Did Kronecker's "ganzen Zahlen" refer to whole numbers as natural numbers or integers?

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Where does the term "reflection" come from?

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Who coined the term "immune system"?

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The Root of a Geometric Progression

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Help With Understanding of Constants in Zeller's Congruence

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