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What does an 100 year old calculus exam look like?
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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?
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Are there any photographs of the original apparatus used by Hertz to demonstrate the photoelectric effect?
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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?
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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?
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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?
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Who is the lady on the image? [closed]
Awarded Jul 13 at 6:36
What mathematical problems did the Sicilians need Arab help with in 1229? Did the Arabs solve these problems?
Awarded Jul 7 at 10:27
Did the ancient Greeks have zero in their number system?
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Who discovered the thin lens equation $\frac{1}{u}+\frac{1}{v}=\frac{1}{f}$?
Awarded Jun 30 at 20:41
Did Galois make use of the concept of a basis?
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Why are complex numbers called 'complex'?
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When was compactness theorem for propositional logic first proven?
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Why was the original typesetting of Number Fields by Marcus so horrible?
Awarded Jun 18 at 12:49
Was there ever a mathematician or physicist who spearheaded a concerted effort to create a flawless musical instrument?
Awarded Jun 17 at 21:29
Could a “field” have non-commutative multiplication originally?
Awarded Jun 15 at 19:07
Who first identified $\frac{n}{\ln(n)}$ as an approximation of a prime counting function?
Awarded Jun 9 at 21:20
Who was Hans Bauer who worked on the Perron integral?
Awarded Jun 5 at 22:19
Who established that $K_e = \frac{1}{4 \pi \varepsilon _m}$?
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Did Einstein oppose evolution? [closed]
Awarded May 29 at 22:06
What problem was solved by introducing the dimension of a vector space?
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What is the source of Einstein's quote “spooky action at a distance”? [duplicate]
Awarded May 27 at 6:32
What mathematics did Isaac Newton learn at school?
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Eventually impossible to contribute to science? [closed]
Awarded May 24 at 19:07
Were ancient Romans so bad at computations before Arab numerals?
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History of summing integers with natural powers
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Where is the Troughton scale kept?
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When and WHY did mathematicians start turning their attention to imaginary exponents?
Awarded May 15 at 18:41
What is the etymology of “phase space” of a dynamical system?
Awarded May 11 at 15:54
Who was Heinrich Kornblum?
Awarded May 10 at 4:27
Who convinced Churchill to fund Needham's trip to China in 1942?
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What is the origin of the “virtual particle pair” metaphor for vacuum fluctuations?
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Quote from ancient scholar: that a leader cannot be neutral, he must chose a side [closed]
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History of molecular constituency and structure
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