The story
Named after the English Franciscan friar and scholastic philosopher William of Ockham (1287–1347) by Alasdair Urquhart in 1979. The notion was introduced by Joel Berman in 1977.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ockham algebra
Today it means: A bounded distributive lattice with a dual endomorphism (where “dual” means that it satisfies De Morgan’s laws). Full definition →