[Ads-l] Antedating of "Combinatorics"

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Sun Jan 2 23:12:02 UTC 2022


combinatorics (OED 1941)

1940 Monatshefte fur Deutschen Unterricht 32: 174 (JSTOR)  In mathematics, likewise, an unknown can be established by combinatorics.

Fred Shapiro

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