If my memory is accurate, the name "ringe" appeared first in 1915 or
1916 in a paper of Fraenkel. It is not in Weber's "Algebra", which does
contain the word "korper" (field). I am ignorant of when this latter
concept was first used. I will try to find out more, but an historian of
mathematics could probably do it faster.
Melvin Henriksen
jensd99 wrote:
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> Hello,
>
> as a new member of this group, I'd like to pose a question: Does
> anybody know, why the algebraic ring is called ring and the field
> called a field (in german a body)?
>
> My main interests are in algebra, number theory and reduction systems.
> I am a researcher and try to establish a new kind of method ..
>
> Regards
> Jens
>
>


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