History of Science and Mathematics

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Early helium spectrum measurements and their challenge for Bohr's quantum mechanics
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Did Einstein really explain Relativity using the hot stove/pretty girl analogy and if so why?
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What scientists and mathematicians were afraid to publish their findings?
Awarded Nov 14 at 9:09
Where does the term elasticity (of a function) come from?
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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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What is the earliest use of the $\perp\!\!\!\!\perp$ symbol in statistics to denote statistical independence?
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In ancient times, how did people conclude that the shape of Earth is a sphere?
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List of textbooks on Abstract Algebra in the order of time
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Foundational crises in non-Western historical mathematical communities
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What is Heaviside's version of Maxwell's equations?
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Why didn't Einstein propose any metric solution to his equations?
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Why didn't Einstein propose any metric solution to his equations?
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Where to find average man/woman drawings as proposed by Quetelet?
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Kepler's Mysterium Cosmographicum with regular polygons: in which nesting order?
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When was the first time/s that sheaves entered algebra and algebraic geometry?
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Who were some physicists with musical background?
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The Original Title of "Euclid's Elements"
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Earliest mention of permutation matrices, or equivalent? More generally, matrices for arbitrary functions between finite sets?
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Is there an astronomical reason behind the order for the names of days of the week?
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Why did Hilbert believe consistency implies existence?
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How the concept of Momentum was discovered?
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Examples of papers co-authored by parent/child, or siblings
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In a survey of historical science has anyone studied the propensity of other departments to co-opt scientific terminology to further their own ideas?
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Who introduced the partition function?
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How did Ramanujan learn to do mathematics?
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Apparently different objects discovered to be the same
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Is scientific consensus ever significantly wrong?
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Have all of Euler's works been translated?
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Have all of Euler's works been translated?
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Has there ever been a case where someone wished a theorem or important result wasn't named after them? Has it happened more than once?
Awarded May 31 at 1:06
Where is Alfred Tarski buried?
Awarded May 30 at 21:57
Who was Richard Thompson?
Awarded May 20 at 5:43
What are some physicists that wrote literary works?
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Can we estimate the first appearance of popular science books?
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Can we estimate the first appearance of popular science books?
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Origin and justification for stating the second law of thermodynamics as $dS=d_{\rm{e}}S+d_{\rm{i}}S$?
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Examples of mathematicians who applied to patent their work
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Examples of flattering comments from a famous scientist concerning a young colleague
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Who gave right hand thumb rule for circular loop of current conducting wire?
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What was so hard about discovering/inventing the number zero?
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What was so hard about discovering/inventing the number zero?
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Are there any good books on the history of condensed matter?
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Heisenberg's Obituary to Pauli
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Mathematicians who wrote fiction
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What is the earliest paper in which graph vertex connectivity is denoted by the Greek letter $\kappa$?
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Mathematicians who wrote fiction
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Mathematicians who wrote fiction
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Mathematicians who wrote fiction
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Mathematicians who wrote fiction
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Mathematicians who wrote fiction
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Mathematicians who wrote fiction
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Mathematicians who wrote fiction
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Mathematicians who wrote fiction
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What is the etymology of the term space-time?
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What is the etymology of the term space-time?
Awarded Apr 16 at 19:06
What are the equations of Electric Gravity Lorentz derived, and what is the paper in which they are found?
Awarded Apr 14 at 17:40
Examples of papers co-authored by parent/child, or siblings
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How did Isaac Newton write the integral symbol?
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