Who first used the word "Simplex" to describe the considered geometric figure?
[Math] Who first used the word “Simplex”
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Who first used the word "Simplex" to describe the considered geometric figure?
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According to Jeff Miller's Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics, the first known occurrence is in Schoute’s Mehrdimensionale Geometrie of 1902.