My curiosity comes from a 1538 book in Italian, written by Antonio Manutius, "Trip from Alessandria to India". This word, "dacµ" (look image) is only used in this part, and can be translated in context by (battle) "field". I looked on Internet but couldn't find anything on the history of this annotation. Do you have any track?
excuse-me, I don't speak Arab. Could you translate your comment to English, please? Thanks in advance
My personal hypothesis in the concept of 'field' was already present in Hinduism in India. There many indices in the text Manutius was personally given information by Indians (that too spoke ancient Greek). That's how he knew dacµ. For the modern fonction of dacµ, I wouldn't find surprising revolutionary Russian mathematicians that started investigations around fields may have knew and used Indian Mahabharata.
Interesting question, hope we find solution to it. Following.
The concept of "field", that can brusquely change from one state to another as a whole is Indian and very old.
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