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Did president Garfield make any contributions to Mathematics?

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What contributions to mathematics did Napoleon make?

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Why was Hausdorff not able to move to United States from Nazi Germany?

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Why did Columbus think the Earth was much smaller than it is?

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Have there been instances in physics where different scientists have interpreted the same data differently? [closed]

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Why do South Asians often use "lakhs" and "crores" instead of "millions"? What is the historical origin of this system?

ancient-india numbers

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Did the medieval Islamic scholar al-Tusi state the principle of conservation of mass?

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Who introduced gravitational potential?

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Whose 1930 number theory result is used in characterizing perfect 2-error correcting linear codes?

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Did Feynman win the Putnam by a "large margin"

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Math-education comparsion between Japan and United States from perspectives of engineering contributions

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Are there any direct comments by Isaac Newton on Leibniz's living force / vis-viva?

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Whatever happened to parageometrical optics of diffraction?

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Why was the term random "variable" applied to a mapping?

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Who introduced the stream function?

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(Where) does Plato define perfect number?

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Mathematics involved in "Jabberwocky"

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Had Albert Einstein tried to use the Galilean transformation on Maxwell's equations before AE's Special Theory?

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Did Hertz discover the concept of frequency and if so, how did Doppler think of frequency?

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Did Cantor know about Boole's work in logic, and did it influence his work on sets?

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Who introduced velocity potential?

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Einstein's Objection to Drude Model

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Are there any portraits of Joseph Fourier other than this one?

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Looking for reference for quote

mathematics reference-request quote

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Is there a source for a footnote in A Canticle for Leibowitz about the definition of the electron, "Negative Twist of Nothingness"

physics particle-physics

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Ancient Egyptian Mathematicians

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Why did the mathematical community settle on these properties to define a topology?

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Is the height of Great Pyramid based on the Golden ratio or on Pi? [closed]

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"Dragon Dice", a historical gambling game involved in the development of probability

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Which library in London has the best mathematics and history sections? [closed]

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Complex potential in E227?

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Did the ancients have the concept of dimension?

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How did the US get enough U235 for "Little Boy"

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Why did Poincaré call point-set topology a disease? [duplicate]

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The Picard Group: Origin and History

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How did Mathew Bevan acquire hacking skill without belonging to military or national agencies?

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When did Zermelo and Fraenkel publish their axioms?

mathematics set-theory

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Diphtherite: What is it and what is the difference with Diphtheria?

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Who was the first scientist to give a formula for the probability density function of the position of a photon in the double slit experiment?

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Who first measured the increase of mass with speed?

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What date is assigned to Hippocratic treatises "On Generation" and "On the Nature of the Child"?

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How did the concept of displacement emerge?

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Is there a derivation (in English) of the Wien radiation law not based on statistics, other than that found in "Atomic Physics" by Max Born?

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Why is the magnetic force on a current-carrying wire sometimes called the Laplace force?

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What is Aristotle's view on Plant generation?

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