MacTutor archive page tracing the earliest attested English use of the word polynomial to 1674, in Samuel Jeake's Arithmetic, per the Oxford English Dictionary.
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PublisherMacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
URLhttps://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miller/mathword/p/
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