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In my studies so far, I have had the word 'ramification' come up in Algebraic Number Theory and Complex Analysis.

The Wikipedia article tells me that 'ramification' is also used in some other fields.

I was wondering when the term 'ramification' was first used in literature, and also the field it was first used in.

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    In Riemann's collected works, [available here](http://www.archive.org/stream/117719254#page/n75/mode/2up), the word *Verzweigung* seems to appear first in his *Beiträge zur Theorie der durch die Gauss'sche Reihe $F(\alpha,\beta,\gamma,x)$ darstellbaren Functionen* (1854), last paragraph of the introduction.2011-12-15

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