The title of my Q. says it all:


**QUESTION**:   Who defined and who coined: *module*?


Would it be Emmy Noether?


**EDIT**   In view of @anon's and KConrad's answers, and as it could have been expected, the situation is a bit complex. Thus it looks that while Dedekind coined *module*, the final notion was defined by Emmy Noether. By defined I mean that *module* at a minimum should be a generalization of linear spaces, abelian groups and ideals.



Who defined and who coined "module"?
From: <http://jeff560.tripod.com/m.html>


MODULE. A JSTOR search found the English term in E. T. Bell’s “Successive Generalizations in the Theory of Numbers,” American Mathematical Monthly, 34, (1927), 55-75. Bell was describing the work of Dedekind, basing his account on Dedekind’s French article, “Sur la Théorie des Nombres entiers algébriques” (1877) Gesammelte mathematische Werke 3 pp. 262-298. Dedekind used the French word module to translate his German term Modul. Stillwell writes in the Introduction to his English translation, Theory of Algebraic Integers (1996, p. 5), “Dedekind presumably chose the name ‘module’ because a module M is something for which ‘congruence modulo M’ is meaningful.” Curiously le module had once before been translated into English but then it went into English as the MODULUS of a complex number. [John Aldrich]


