Who originally came up with the idea that a vector field is a type of derivation? I remember being amazed by this idea when I learnt it as an undergrad. Probably the first technical construction that I was impressed with as a technical construction.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivation_(differential_algebra)
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