The upshot was its gradual popularisation in Europe, particularly in France.
The controversy over performances by the comedian, Dieudonné, and his popularisation of the "quenelle" gesture (supposedly a modified Nazi salute) stokes belief in entrenched hatred of Jews.
He presents a wide variety of mathematical results in a book that is a cross between popularisation and mathematical text, complete with propositions, theorems, proofs and marginal boxes with notation and definitions.
On the one hand, the popularisation of the "tsar" classification is almost an accident of the news industry.
She points out that large majorities of Americans aged 18-34 believe that Social Security will not have the money to provide benefits for their retirement, and that they would receive higher returns if they invested the money themselves.This confidence in personal provision, of course, has much to do with the current bull market and the popularisation of personal investment.
I'm not averse to popularisation: widening the audience for opera and theatre by beaming live performances into cinemas or piazzas is a delightful adornment to public life.
She is probably most celebrated for her pioneering work in the development of COBOL, one of the first programming languages that could work independently of a particular machine, but we should perhaps thank her most for her popularisation of the word 'debugging' - dating from an anecdote when an actual moth was found in a computer she was working on, and that was slowing down its processes.
Exhibitions have become the means of delivering this popularisation, or at least the means by which the institutions can claim they are doing so.
Tony Juniper, who was a brilliant leader of Friends of the Earth, has been one of the principal advocates in Britain of the ecosystems services approach (his book What Has Nature Ever Done For Us? was the first popularisation of the idea) and last week he forcefully made the case for it at the New Networks for Nature Conference in Stamford, Lincolnshire.
