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[QUOTE="Bandersnatch, post: 6382469, member: 399360"] The etymonline dictionary gives 1893 as the first use in the mathematical sense, albeit without providing any concrete references. Reading up on the history of mathematical analysis on Wikipedia, this time stamp seems plausible, as the nineteenth century is when the branch of mathematics was formed (although naively one would be inclined to think it should be some 50 years earlier, since that's when the bulk of the work was done by the greats like Cauchy, Poisson, Riemann, or Fourier). The same dictionary gives 1965 for the beginning of use in the astronomical sense, i.e. during the golden age of general relativity. Again, no specific reference is given, but it could be referring to Penrose's work on black holes from that year. [/QUOTE]
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