Within the English language area the terms "skew field" and "sfield" were mentioned 1948 by Neal McCoy[2] as "sometimes used in the literature", and since 1965 skewfield has an entry in the OED. The German term Schiefkörper [de] is documented, as a suggestion by van der Waerden, in a 1927 text by Emil Artin,[3] and was used by Emmy Noether as lecture title in 1928.[4]
