> >> 1) When did the use of "space" illustrated in the quote below
> become
> >> common? Is it a techie word originally?
> >*********
> >
> >Probably appropriated from phase space diagrams in chaos theory.
> Networks are
> >pretty commonly modeled in terms of topologies and spaces.
>
> Which may have been appropriated from the phase space diagrams of
> geology.
Phase space diagrams can be found in just about all the physical sciences where it is useful to plot real dimensions vs. imaginary dimensions, e.g. Ohm's Law, Quantum Electrodynamics, etc.
Matt
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