Who first used the word "homomorphism" to describe a link between two similar structures ?
Following this, who specialized this concept with the words:
- "Isomorphism";
- "Endomorphism";
- "Automorphism" ?
Gérard Lang
Today homomorphism (resp. isomorphism) means what Jordan (1870) had called isomorphism (resp. holoedric isomorphism). How did the switch happen?
“Homomorphic” (and “homomorphism” as “property of being homomorphic”) are e.g. in de Séguier (1904, pp. 65–66) and the last edition of Weber (1912, p. ...
