Yes, I agree about multiple concepts having similar names.<p>We should keep Wikipedia out of the discussion.  To point to the common usage of dynamic programming in the mathematical sense, people could just as well have mentioned some textbooks (or not supplied any sources at all).  Wikipedia is just a handy reference, but only tangential to the argument.<p>By the way, Wikipedia has disambiguation pages (like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(disambiguation)" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(disambiguation)</a>) when there are multiple common meanings for an entry.