The Origin & History of Ring & Field: Who Invented Them?

gvk · Sep 10, 2004

Does anybody know who first introduced terms ring and field and when?

HallsofIvy · Sep 10, 2004

I put "mathemtics" "terms" "history" into Google and came up with this intersting site:
http://members.aol.com/jeff570/mathword.html

According to it, it was Richard Dedekind who introduced both terms in the late 1850s.

gvk · Sep 11, 2004

Thank you, very handy website :approve:

mathwonk · Sep 17, 2004

technically, it appears the website mentioned states that eliakim hastings moore introduced the english term "field", as dedekind's term "korper" apparently translates literally as "body" rather than field.

I do not have a german dictionary handy though. Is perhaps "field" another translation of "korper"? interestingly "ring" seems to be both an english and a german word, as used in wagner's famous operas. or is this wrong?

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