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My dictionary has this as origin of the word: East Anglian dialect, perhaps related to splinter.

I expect "model" is used in model theory imitating previous uses in mathematics. Such as for non-euclidean geometry. (the Klein model, the Poincaré disk model, the Poincaré half-plane model, the Lor …

I looked in the Oxford English Dictionary (subscription required) for English usages. physics used in the medical sense, I do not report on. physics used for "natural science" in general: The o …

They also mention the terminology of Leibniz, "raison déterminante" (1710) later changed to "raison suffisante" (1714). …

As noted in the comments, "baroco" is a mnemonic for a certain type of syllogism in classical Aristotlean logic. See Wikipedia But it is no longer believed that "Baroque" comes from it etymologicall …

I quote from Ask the Historian "The Universal Gas Constant" by William B. Jensen, Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, published in J. Chem. Educ., 2003, 80, 731-732 Question Why i …

Mercury the metal (a.k.a quicksilver). Usage in English ... the Oxford English Dictionary (subscription required) has an example in Chaucer (~1395): And in amalgamyng and calcenyng Of quyk siluer, yc …

Why not consult the "History of Mathematics Archive" at http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/index.html ? It contains mini-biographies of hundreds of mathematicians.

It is interesting to look at mathwords IMPROPER FRACTION was used in English in 1542 by Robert Recorde in The ground of artes, teachyng the worke and practise of arithmetike: "An Improper Fraction... …

The Oxford English Dictionary divides its definitions of the noun mode into: "senses derived directly from the Latin" and "senses derived from French". The statistical meaning is listed in "senses de …

In the Oxford English Dictionary, we find open adj, definition 27a: Of a matter, discussion, etc.: not finally settled or determined; that may be decided according to circumstances or at will; (h …

Answer from Mathword TORUS. Hero mentions a mathematician named Dionysodorus as the author of On the Tore, in which a formula for the volume of the torus is given [DSB]. An early use of torus as a ma …

SEE for more Ed Lorenz in 1963 wrote One meteorologist remarked that if the theory were correct, one flap of a sea gull's wings would be enough to alter the course of the weather forever. The con …

It is sometimes asserted that $\varnothing$ for the empty set was introduced by Bourbaki using a Danish and Norwegian letter. EDIT: The source is the Weil autobiography, cited in Jeff Miller's collect …

Mathematicians say $\int \frac{1}{x}\;dx = \log x + C$. It works even for the complex case. Calculus instructors say $\int \frac{1}{x}\;dx = \ln|x|+C$ for some reason, but it is WRONG in the compl …