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Heyting and Lugano
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History of Fatou's Lemma
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What is the oldest open question solved in mathematics?
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How did polar coordinates come into existence?
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Using Leonardo of Pisa's table of Chords
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How did people make things perfectly straight?
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History of irreducible polynomials and motivation for them
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What changes in mathematics resulted in the change of the definition of primes and exclusion of 1?
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Why we got so many geniuses after 19th century? [closed]
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Who was Fleury? And what was his first name?
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How did Antonius Van den Broek come up with his hypothesis that the atomic number matches the charge of the nucleus?
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When was nicotine identified as an addictive substance?
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Who were some mathematicians who have a musical background?
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Names of the electromagnetic units in SI
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Significance of Higgs model used in Glashow-Salam-Weinberg theory
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Is there an analog of Ginga style in mathematics? [closed]
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An English translation of Simon Stevin's De Thiende
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Differences between modern and old mathematical notations
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Mathematicians who often didn't use notebooks/devices to work?
Awarded Nov 9 '20 at 9:49
Why did Galileo express himself in terms of ratios when describing laws of accelerated motion?
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Who first used the Completeness Axiom for real numbers?
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How to pronounce Jacobson [closed]
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What did Delaunay invent Delaunay triangulations for before computers were developed?
Awarded Oct 27 '20 at 10:28
Was Lebesgue differentiation theorem the motivation for Vitali's, Riesz's and Hardy-Littlewood's results used to prove it?
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“Family tree” of mathematicians and their PhD advisors and students
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What does an 100 year old calculus exam look like?
Awarded Oct 16 '20 at 11:26
context of a Niels Bohr quote “some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them”
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What exactly was the Rutherford model of the atom?
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What did Albert Einstein mean by “psychical entities”?
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Where does the word root comes from?
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Mr. Newton at the Royal Mint
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When Did the Notion of ``Limit'' Arise and for What Purpose?
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Who identified the four basic types of animal tissue?
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Why did Richard Bellman, creator of dynamic programing say: 1950s were not good years for maths?
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What were Riemann's “semi-physical” methods?
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History behind the heat equation
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How many languages did historically well-known mathematicians master?
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How did ZFC become the standard foundations of mathematics?
Awarded Sep 23 '20 at 17:45
Are there any photographs of the original apparatus used by Hertz to demonstrate the photoelectric effect?
Awarded Sep 20 '20 at 19:33
What did the ancient Greeks know about the solar system, and how?
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How critical were Tycho Brahe’s accurate observations?
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What does “given in species” mean in old geometry textbooks?
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Who formalized integer numbers?
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Where did the contour integral sign appear for the first time?
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Why is Dirac delta named after Dirac when the concept was already over two centuries old?
Awarded Aug 25 '20 at 15:19
English translation of Xu Yue's Shushu Jiyi?
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Origins and reason for Volume A and B divide in Theoretical Computer Science
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Are there commented English translations of Pappus's works on conics?
Awarded Aug 21 '20 at 0:56
Why are the first three multiplicative SI prefixes lowercase?
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Origin of identity: $\int\limits_{-\infty}^{\infty} \exp\{ - \pi x^2 - 2 \pi^{1/2} a x\} \,da = \exp\left\{a^2\right\}$
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Why are there so many German terms in the field of radiative transfer?
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How did the “Wheel of Theodorus” become known as the “Wheel of Einstein”?
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Why do we use Leibniz's “version” of calculus instead of Newton's?
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Einstein: 'SR is a theory of invariants, not relativity' — source?
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Inscribing equilateral triangle in square — mistake in historical work by Abu'l-Wafa Al-Buzjani?
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Heisenberg's Obituary to Pauli
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When was the function 1 + cos(x), aka the vercosine, given a name?
Awarded Jul 21 '20 at 16:26
Who is the lady on the image? [closed]
Awarded Jul 13 '20 at 6:36
What mathematical problems did the Sicilians need Arab help with in 1229? Did the Arabs solve these problems?
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Did the ancient Greeks have zero in their number system?
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