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How did Hagoromo Fulltouch chalk gain so much popularity among mathematicians in the West?
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Origin of the “law of quadratic reciprocity”
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What is the origin of the Chinese Stick Multiplication method?
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Did the principles of celestial mechanics affect the development of electromagnetism?
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On the history of Haar measure
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Who invented the gradient descent algorithm?
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What was this experiment tainted by the observer effect?
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Was there a more intuitive early proof of the generalized mean value theorem?
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Who all scientists made a mark in the world despite their disabilities?
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Why did Schrödinger write a letter to Einstein “apologizing profusely for his duplicity”?
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Source of claim that Leibniz discovered separation of variables for ODEs in 1691?
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Why are “join” and “meet” named as they are?
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How did the use of the word “origin” become commonplace in geometry?
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What cipher(s) did Isaac Newton use?
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Gauss's proofs of quadratic reciprocity
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Why are X and Y commonly used as mathematical placeholders?
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When and how did the notion/idea of physical constant emerge?
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Was Lord Kelvin at any point a proponent of vitalism?
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How were negative numbers first used in physics?
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Why is the meaning of “linear” different in school and college use?
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Feynman story: providing two different explanations for the same phenomenon
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Which physicist is this quote attributed to?
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What does it mean by “d-ism of Leibniz” and “dotage of Newton” in simple English?
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What are the great works of Richard Phillips Feynman? [closed]
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Euler's Derivation of Euler's Method for ODEs
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Definitions of continuity pre-Dedekind
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How did Henry Cavendish deduce the inverse square law in electrostatics from his experiment in 1772?
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Kite experiment
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What animals or plants were used to illustrate ideas of physics?
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Robert Boyle discovery of electricity
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What are the references for Riemann's discussion of gravity?
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Why would Margaret Hamilton and her team at NASA print the code on paper?
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What were the typical ways students were taught the elements when it remained the prime textbook of mathematics?
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When did stoichiometry begin to be taught in U.S. high schools?
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How did the obelus ÷ come to stand for division?
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Influence of Poincaré on Julia and Fatou
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When did people start to state and justify properties of arithmetical operations?
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Did Galileo really see Galilean Moons?
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Where did Ptolemy compare the Earth to the distance of fixed stars?
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History of a contour integral method for summing series
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What actually led Feynman to the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics?
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Why was the 'differential entropy' from information theory so named?
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How long has the order of priority of arithmetical operations been widely taught in high schools?
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Has a stereotypical “mad scientist” ever made a significant discovery?
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Is Newton going to be the new Aristotle? [closed]
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Can anybody identify an appropriate radio for this game?
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How - Historically- René Descartes works affect the invention of calculus?
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Did Cambridge change their BSc policy for Ramanujan?
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What theorem of Sophus Lie on the number of geometries is H. Poincaré referring to?
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How was the notion of the metacenter of a floating body discovered?
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Who did the drawings in Hilbert's and Cohn-Vossen's “Anschauliche Geometrie”?
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What technologies were used before JavaScript?
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What were the smallest numbers encountered in history?
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What did Albert Einstein mean by “psychical entities”?
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Who developed The Fundamental Theorem of Curves
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Origin of the Heaviside function?
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Why didn't John von Neumann win the Turing Award, Fields Medal or Nobel Prize?
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Where does the word ``sine'' (as in $\sin x$) come from?
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Could someone explain Vives logical notation?
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What was the scientific explanation of earthquakes in the 18th century?
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