Subject: RE: [MATHEDCC] vocabulary usage
From: Jerry Thornhill (jerry_thornhill@sw.cc.va.us)
Date: Tue Jan 25 2000 - 17:52:04 EST
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From: lseese@mcmail.stlcc.cc.mo.us [mailto:lseese@mcmail.stlcc.cc.mo.us]
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2000 5:18 PM
To: mathedcc@archives.math.utk.edu
Subject: [MATHEDCC] vocabulary usage
Along the same lines as Martha's question, when and why did we start
using the terminology
"domain" and "range" in mathematics? anyone know the history of these
terms?
Lillian Seese SLCC Meramec
According to the WEB site,
http://members.aol.com/jeff570/d.html
which was posted earlier in this thread by someone else,
Domain, in the sense of the values that an independent variable of a
function can take, appears in the Encyclopaedia Britannica of 1902 (OED2).
RANGE (of a function) is used in 1914 by J. G. Kemeny et al. in Finite
Mathematical Structures (OED2).
OED2 refers to the Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition
This is a nice site. Thanks to the original poster.
Regards,
Jerry Thornhill
Southwest Virginia Community College
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