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Neither wikipedia or the first few pages of Google are showing me much about the history of the development of equivalence classes. When was this notion first formalized?
Footnote: I originally asked ...
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Max Ernst was a painter belonging to the Dadaistic movement. One of his paintings shows Euclid in a somewhat, well, let's say Dadaistic fashion (although fashion and Dadaism don't go along well). We ...
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Many famous scientists are connected by their doctorate advisor-student relations. I wonder if we know which is the largest continuous chain of famous researchers. I have checked pages like ...
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At university I learned quantum mechanics in or position or momentum variables. Later (in fact on this site), I learned about the phase space formulation in which both are used at the same time.
The ...
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Mendel's laws (like the laws of segregation or inheritance) became known to a wider publis decades after he discovered these laws. He assumed trait particles in operation that were responible for his ...
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Einstein was the first who saw spacetime as a mallable substance to be malled with mass. As far as I know there were no people who suggested such a view of spacetime before him. But I could be wrong.
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I was reading this Wikipedia page searching for the Egyptian area of circle and there is a following picture there:
Trying to understand what is meant by this since it is under the "Area" ...
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I was reading about the history of thermodynamics and came across Lavoisier's idea of heat. He proposed that heat was a fluid. I am curious to know what are the major drawbacks of this theory. I know ...
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I try to make my question short. I am familiar with Popper’s philosophy as well as with statistical hypothesis testing after Fisher and Neyman-Pearson. I am not so familiar with the Bayesian approach ...
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Are there any differences between the study of Calculus done by Newton as compared to that done by Leibniz? If yes, please mention point by point.
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Where can I find a paper or reference that describes the timeline of measurements of the magnitude of the electron's electric charge.
For context, Millikan's oil drop experiment in 1908 determined the ...
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There is no information on wiki. Is it known to Newton?
It seems that this has not been mentioned in most textbooks.
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We know that Pythagoreans in Ancient Greece discovered that the square root of two is an irrational number. Why was that discovery historically significant? What value was that knowledge to the ...
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What was Napier's original logic, leading to his invention of logarithms?
In other words, how did Napier, using the mathematics that was available at that time, derive them?
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