Origin of The Name
The name appears to have been coined by David Kendall and Klaus Krickeberg while preparing for a June 1969 Oberwolfach workshop, though antecedents for the theory stretch back much further under the name geometric probability. The term "stochastic geometry" was also used by Frisch and Hammersley in 1963 as one of two suggestions for names of a theory of "random irregular structures" inspired by percolation theory.
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