16 Dec 2003 mwh   » (Master)

zhaoway: Google suggests the term "real number" was coined to be the antonym of "imaginary number" (though I have my doubts). "Complex number" is due to Gauss, and if you mean "functional" as in "functional analysis" that must have been a frenchman... Google says Hadamard.

So, yes, English mathematics, like all the rest of the English language, could be said to have "agressively borrowed" the odd word here or there.

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