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- From: mcfarlan@corona.math.washington.edu (Thomas J. McFarlane)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Math or Maths --dates of abbreviations
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.043509.15777@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 04:35:09 GMT
- Article-I.D.: u.1992Jul24.043509.15777
- References: <4584@daily-planet.concordia.ca> <1992Jul23.224958.6112@u.washington.edu>
- Sender: mcfarlan@math.washington.edu
- Organization: University of Washington, Mathematics, Seattle
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- mckay@alcor.concordia.ca ( John Mckay ) writes:
- >
- > The Greek is MATHEMATIKOS - when did the abbreviations first occur?
- >
- My concise Oxford dictionary lists both math and maths as colloquial
- abbreviations for mathematics. Webster's tells me that math was coined
- around 1890 and maths in 1911.
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- Tom McFarlane
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