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Gram-Schmidt Procedure: What's the role of Schmidt in the derivation of it

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Are adjoint operators historically related to integrating factors?

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How do we explain the lack of activity in the study of Latin mathematics?

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How did the Ancient Greeks conceive of the Platonic solids?

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What is Cardano trying to say in this passage of his Ars Magna Arithmeticæ?

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Origin of exact and closed differential expressions

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In JJ Thomson's cathode ray experiment I need values for the electric field and magnetic field when net force on the cathode beam = 0

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Dirac’s debt to Hamilton

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Seeking Comprehensive References on the History of Scientific Notation

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Did Newton know about non-inertial frames?

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How did Emmy Noether become interested in abstract algebra?

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How did someone discover LCM?

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Did Newton say: "If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent"?

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Is there existing footage of Stanislaw Mazur giving Per Enflo a live goose for solving the approximation problem?

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Euclid's use of antenaresis and Heath's commentary

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Who coined the term "signal-to-noise ratio" and when did statisticians start using the term "noise" to describe randomness?

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Reference request: What were the problems of accepting zero, negative numbers, and complex numbers? And how were they solved?

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How did Schrödinger do quantum mechanics with wave functions?

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Who postulated the first Lagrangian for electrodynamics?

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Whence Whitehead's essence?

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Did Einstein really explain Relativity using the hot stove/pretty girl analogy and if so why?

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First recorded use of oxymel to treat wounds

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The Langevin twins

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Book on the evolution of Quantum Theory

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Why aren't Nobel nomination archives updated more often?

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Reference request: What were the problems of accepting zero, negative numbers, and complex numbers? And how were they solved? [duplicate]

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Finite fields as quotients

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Why energy rate did not replace power = Force times velocity?

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Is it true that Albert Einstein was kicked out of high school due to his "peacefulness"?

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Examples of mathematicians who applied to patent their work


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