Game Theory

[Fred Shapiro]

On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, James A. Landau wrote:

> There is a Web site on "Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of
> Mathematics" at http://members.aol.com/jeff570/mathword.html.  This Web site
> is the source of the 1954 citation cited above.  I trust Mr. Shapiro will be
> pleased to learn that his 1946-7 citation has already been posted there
> (where it will be seen by an OED editor who specializes in scientific
> terminology.)

The "Earliest Known Uses" site is pretty derivative of Merriam-Webster and
the OED.  I am sure Jesse Sheidlower picks up antedatings from this list
without needing help from "Earliest Known Uses" posting items, not to
mention the fact that I sent the citation in question to Oxford some time
ago.

Fred Shapiro


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