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This dimension names the person credited with inventing a specific algorithm. Wikipedia notes that computer science includes the study of "algorithms, theory of computation, and information theory," a field where individual algorithms are commonly credited to the researcher who first described them. Browsing this way collects every algorithm invented by the same person.

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Era of Emergence
1878 CE 1
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1. Wikipedia: Graph theory
WikipediaGraph theory, History section, term-origin sentence
Quote, Graph theory, History section, term-origin sentence
The term "graph" was introduced by James Joseph Sylvester in a paper published in 1878 in Nature, where he drew an analogy between "quantic invariants" and "co-variants" of algebra and molecular diagrams.
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