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Did Newton's leap to understanding gravity involve cannonball thought experiments on a smooth Earth?
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"Nuclear fusion is 30 years away" since when?
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"Équation de Maxwell-Thomson"
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How to find the first appearance of a theorem?
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How does Legendre transformation in classical mechanics relate to Adrien-Marie Legendre?
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How did the concept of local field emerge and develop in mathematics?
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Kepler's Mysterium Cosmographicum with regular polygons: in which nesting order?
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How was light polarization interpreted when first discovered?
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Can the so-called completeness of real numbers be understood as closure under limits in the real number system?
Awarded Aug 23 at 15:33
Was Gottlob Frege hospitalized by Russell's Paradox?
Awarded Aug 21 at 13:57
Which "experiments to solve geological questions" did Berend George Escher use?
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Teiji Takagi's Fondation of Class Field Theory in Terms of Norms
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The Original Title of "Euclid's Elements"
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Who was the first person in history to calculate the limit $\lim\limits_{n\to\infty}\left(1+\dfrac{1}{n}\right)^n$?
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Autistic Assistant of Gauss used to check Primality
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How did Fermat handle Frenicle's challenge to find a perfect number between $10^{20}$ and $10^{22}$?
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Was Martin Packard of Varian Associates related to David Packard of Hewlett-Packard?
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How the concept of Momentum was discovered?
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Are similarities in notation between Hamiltonian mechanics and Box-Jenkins time series forecasting accidental?
Awarded Jul 10 at 16:58
Who was J. M. Gandhi?
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What is the iodine fax process mentioned in Vannevar Bush's "As we may think"?
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When did derivative mean not only "slope of tangent" but also "instantaneous rate of change"?
Awarded Jun 13 at 19:40
What was so hard about discovering/inventing the number zero?
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Was Aristarchus the first to propose heliocentrism?
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What did the study plan of a early 20th century mathematics undergraduate program look like?
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Who were the attendees to the SGA3 seminar?
Awarded Apr 7 at 21:09
Provenance of mathematics quote from Robert Musil, 1913
Awarded Apr 6 at 20:15
How did Isaac Newton write the integral symbol?
Awarded Mar 31 at 13:52
How did Ptolemy know that days were unequal lengths?
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Is there a theorem proof whose accuracy is doubted because it is short?
Awarded Mar 18 at 21:05
Did the ancient Romans know and use the catenary test when building arches and bridges?
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New mathematics theory vs new mathematical theorem
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When did Macaulay rings become Cohen-Macaulay rings?
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Euler: “A baby on his lap, a cat on his back — that’s how he wrote his immortal works” (origin?)
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How did Aristotle explain the motion of living things moving by themselves, and falling of objects, with his hypothesis of all motion needing a cause?
Awarded Feb 21 at 6:19
What are the various manuscripts/transmissions of Newton's book "The Method of Fluxions"?
Awarded Feb 20 at 20:27
Aristotelian explanation of magnetism
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Is it true that Albert Einstein was kicked out of high school due to his "peacefulness"?
Awarded Feb 20 at 11:03
When did the error function get its modern definition?
Awarded Feb 8 at 19:47
Biographical info on Alan Earnshaw (Chemistry of the Elements)
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In which article/book chapter did Cantor, Hilbert, and Poincaré formally define or directly discusse the term “potential infinity”?
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Has Penrose ever acknowledged criticism of the Penrose-Lucas argument?
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Scientific Collaborations during World War
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Were oxocarbons other than carbon monoxide/dioxide always classified as organic compounds?
Awarded Dec 30, 2022 at 4:21
Poincaré's definition of mathematics (?)
Awarded Dec 24, 2022 at 16:31
Searching for book about non-Euclidean geometry that recapitulates the First Book of the Elements
Awarded Dec 20, 2022 at 3:31
Why does Eratosthenes method for calculating the circumference of the Earth requires the city of Alexandria and Syene to be in the same meridian?
Awarded Dec 18, 2022 at 10:48
History of Speed - is it really new? [duplicate]
Awarded Dec 13, 2022 at 14:27
Original source of these 2 trigonometric identities
Awarded Dec 10, 2022 at 10:51
Naturally occurring elements in other planets and their natural satellites other than earth [closed]
Awarded Nov 29, 2022 at 0:35
The symbol h for class numbers
Awarded Nov 24, 2022 at 4:11
Early helium spectrum measurements and their challenge for Bohr's quantum mechanics
Awarded Nov 22, 2022 at 14:02
Continuity, Hausdorff
Awarded Nov 7, 2022 at 6:35
What's the difference between Galileo's "impeto" and "momento"?
Awarded Nov 3, 2022 at 4:41
Did Einstein believe the laws of physics would be replaced by mathematical identities?
Awarded Nov 2, 2022 at 16:37
What was the Ptolemaic system used for?
Awarded Oct 9, 2022 at 2:48
What is the origin of the name "degeneracy" pressure and "degenerate" Fermi gas?
Awarded Sep 24, 2022 at 20:49
Topologies without the axiom that finite intersection of open sets is open
Awarded Sep 20, 2022 at 16:51
What was the quote about known things being trivial and unknown things being impossible?
Awarded Sep 12, 2022 at 21:31
Who first proved necessity of Euclid's formula for pythagorean triples?
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