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History of Science and Mathematics

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Where did Russell eulogize mathematics as follows?
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When was the airless void above the earth discovered?
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In Lord Rosse's 1845 drawing of M51, was the galaxy depicted in white or black?
Awarded Sep 4 at 15:10
Who was this scientist who saw his whole theory(ies) demolished by a publication
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Did Newton predict the deflection of light by gravity?
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Did Newton predict the deflection of light by gravity?
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Egyptian origin of Euclid's axiomatisation of geometry
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What do the H and the E stand for in John Cohn's name?
Awarded Jul 29 at 21:13
Kolmogorov vs Marxists on Independent Random Variables
Awarded Jul 27 at 16:01
Was Martin Packard of Varian Associates related to David Packard of Hewlett-Packard?
Awarded Jul 25 at 2:33
Why are the categories of category theory called "category"?
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Why are the categories of category theory called "category"?
Awarded Jul 21 at 23:46
Origins of the use of matrices for the calculus of binary relations
Awarded Jul 16 at 13:54
How did the shift from constructed mathematical objects to modern mathematics occur?
Awarded Jul 4 at 13:57
When did Claude Navier write the work "Sur Les Lois du Mouvement des Fluides"?
Awarded Jun 20 at 21:35
How does the daguerrotype give directly a positive image?
Awarded Jun 20 at 1:20
Are there any well-known mathematicians who were marxists?
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Are there any well-known mathematicians who were marxists?
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Are there any well-known mathematicians who were marxists?
Awarded Jun 16 at 21:37
Are there any well known mathematicians who were fascists?
Awarded Jun 12 at 18:34
Who are the mathematicians interested in the history of mathematics?
Awarded Jun 9 at 23:57
Who are the mathematicians interested in the history of mathematics?
Awarded Jun 9 at 18:28
Who are the mathematicians interested in the history of mathematics?
Awarded Jun 8 at 7:42
Who are the mathematicians interested in the history of mathematics?
Awarded Jun 7 at 19:47
Bieberbach’s 1934 lecture on “German mathematics”
Awarded Jun 2 at 16:37
Looking for math history but keep finding the same old stuff
Awarded May 18 at 0:46
Famous gypsy/romani physicists?
Awarded May 11 at 6:42
How did Fourier know an infinite number of frequencies were required to solve the heat equation?
Awarded May 7 at 15:46
I'm searching for the original paper from 1924 where Max Born first proposed the term "quantum mechanics."
Awarded May 7 at 2:35
Can I find the number e in the tables of Napier?
Awarded Apr 26 at 16:25
Earliest real-world uses of calculus and linear algebra
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What is Holon Programming?
Awarded Apr 22 at 14:36
How did Henry Cavendish deduce the inverse square law in electrostatics from his experiment in 1772?
Awarded Apr 21 at 11:25
Who are the youngest mathematicians that published an original research article in a peer-reviewed journal?
Awarded Apr 14 at 22:26
Did Ronald Fisher ever say anything on varying the threshold of significance level?
Awarded Apr 13 at 1:42
Origin of vacuous truth
Awarded Apr 12 at 17:25
What factors make a technology grow exponentially over time? (e.g., as in Moore's Law)
Awarded Apr 9 at 17:17
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Why do South Asians often use "lakhs" and "crores" instead of "millions"? What is the historical origin of this system?
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What was the first human gene sequenced/annotated?
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Great scientists with chaotic private lives
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Great battles in the history of mathematics
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Translated articles of Fatou and Julia
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History of cohomology theory
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Translated articles of Fatou and Julia
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Isn't Descartes' account of refraction wrong?
Awarded Mar 2 at 19:07
Did Alan Turing know the German language?
Awarded Feb 27 at 19:15
Is Gauss the first who introduced congruences?
Awarded Feb 24 at 21:32
Are Gauss' electrodynamics laws for charge-charge interaction correct in the limit of low-speeds?
Awarded Feb 24 at 14:20
Works of scientists, philosophers and mathematicians that (re)surfaced after a long time
Awarded Feb 21 at 19:42
Works of scientists, philosophers and mathematicians that (re)surfaced after a long time
Awarded Feb 21 at 15:30
What are some famous named groups of scientists?
Awarded Feb 20 at 20:11
Is it true that Empress Elisabeth of Austria did math?
Awarded Feb 20 at 1:08
Works of scientists, philosophers and mathematicians that (re)surfaced after a long time
Awarded Feb 19 at 10:27
Definition and name change of the oscillation function
Awarded Jan 30 at 14:36
History and origin of the Iso-, Sec-, Tert- and Neo- prefixes?
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Is there a good resource for the number of scientific literature published per year, potentially going back to the times of Newton or even Galilei?
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