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Was Lagrange aware of Hamiltonian mechanics?
Awarded Jan 22 at 9:35
What technology did researchers use to write scientific papers before the computer?
Awarded Jan 21 at 19:20
What was Copernicus trying to mean with 'Mathematics is Written for Mathematicians'?
Awarded Jan 18 at 19:05
Who is Wanner from Rosenrock-Wanner (ROW) methods?
Awarded Jan 15 at 21:30
What is the explanation of rope's strength in Galileo's Two New Sciences?
Awarded Jan 11 at 2:50
Why did Linnaeus equate the phoenix, the mythical bird, with Phoenix, a palm genus?
Awarded Jan 9 at 3:10
What is the original source for Einstein's description of entanglement as “Spooky Action at a Distance”?
Awarded Jan 6 at 1:50
Why do we call Tycho Brahe by his first name?
Awarded Jan 3 at 17:05
Do scientists and mathematicians name their discovery or inventions themselves?
Awarded Jan 2 at 17:10
Why volt instead of volta?
Awarded Jan 1 at 9:25
Is the symbol for set membership $\in$ derived from greek letter $\epsilon$?
Awarded Dec 31 '19 at 20:45
History of “independent and dependent variables”
Awarded Dec 31 '19 at 12:15
Jean-Christophe Yoccoz (May 29, 1957 – September 3, 2016)
Awarded Dec 30 '19 at 18:05
Have orthogonal complex matrices appeared in the literature?
Awarded Dec 29 '19 at 8:40
Was it suspected that electric signals traveled at the speed of light?
Awarded Dec 27 '19 at 5:35
Does Euclid's Elements acknowledge a concept of 0, either directly or indirectly?
Awarded Dec 26 '19 at 18:25
What was the original reason physicists first believed that light must follow a geodesic?
Awarded Dec 23 '19 at 22:55
Differences between “The Science of” versus "The Art of? [closed]
Awarded Dec 22 '19 at 20:10
Why was it necessary to define the “Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics”?
Awarded Dec 22 '19 at 16:10
Normed vector space : when and who?
Awarded Dec 19 '19 at 21:25
How did Lenna become the most used image in image processing?
Awarded Dec 16 '19 at 14:45
Who started calling the matrix multiplication “multiplication”?
Awarded Dec 14 '19 at 7:30
Collection of open problems in Partial differential equations
Awarded Dec 13 '19 at 16:00
Do North Koreans use Latin letters in their equations?
Awarded Dec 4 '19 at 22:45
When was the inverse quadratic interpolation method first used?
Awarded Dec 4 '19 at 6:40
Where are Galois's notes?
Awarded Dec 2 '19 at 23:40
Historical origin of magnetic monopoles
Awarded Nov 30 '19 at 11:50
What were the applications of conic sections before Kepler?
Awarded Nov 29 '19 at 17:35
Where does $M$ for expected value in Russian papers come from?
Awarded Nov 24 '19 at 15:55
What is Leroy Grumman Medal won by theoretical physicist Kenneth G. Wilson?
Awarded Nov 22 '19 at 19:55
What was the motive for inventing Gröbner bases?
Awarded Nov 17 '19 at 11:40
When did non-SI double prefixes go out of use?
Awarded Nov 16 '19 at 19:40
How was it determined that the photoelectric effect is independent of the intensity of light?
Awarded Nov 16 '19 at 12:55
Is there a record of how Newton built his telescope?
Awarded Nov 6 '19 at 16:20
Did Darwin say that the human menstrual cycle length was influenced by the tides?
Awarded Nov 4 '19 at 8:00
Who was the first to weigh chemical reaction products?
Awarded Nov 4 '19 at 1:25
Where are Pierre Samuel's videos of Bourbaki proceedings available?
Awarded Nov 3 '19 at 17:55
Why are revolutions per minute (RPM) still used instead of hertz (Hz)?
Awarded Oct 20 '19 at 5:25
Are these Newton's quotes apocryphal?
Awarded Oct 15 '19 at 11:10
Conventional orientation of axes in scientific plots
Awarded Oct 13 '19 at 21:00
Who first proved that the spectrum of an operator is contained in the closure of its numerical range?
Awarded Oct 10 '19 at 17:25
What was the real need of divergence and curl operators?
Awarded Oct 9 '19 at 4:05
Who discovered anisotropic materials, and what were they studying?
Awarded Oct 8 '19 at 11:10
Reference Request: Did Descartes leave solving the quintic as an exercise to his readers?
Awarded Oct 6 '19 at 4:30
What is the origin of the $\hbar$ symbol?
Awarded Sep 29 '19 at 9:30
Where did the term “set-builder notation” come from?
Awarded Sep 29 '19 at 0:15
What did Kaspar contribute to the gene therapy for spinal muscular atrophy?
Awarded Sep 28 '19 at 12:50
Reference for history of physics with description of mathematical models
Awarded Sep 27 '19 at 16:25
Why are 'speed' and 'velocity' not given the same name?
Awarded Sep 24 '19 at 11:20
How did Bombelli transform $\sqrt[3]{2\pm11\sqrt{-1}}$ into $2\pm\sqrt{-1}$?
Awarded Sep 23 '19 at 5:35
First time the unique factorization theorem was called FTA
Awarded Sep 16 '19 at 19:20
When did mathematicians transition from peg and rope to straightedege and compass?
Awarded Sep 16 '19 at 18:25
Where does the material implication come from, if not from George Boole?
Awarded Sep 13 '19 at 10:45
What did Sommerfeld mean by Bohr's magic wand?
Awarded Sep 11 '19 at 6:35
Where did Einstein propose interpreting the square of amplitude as probability density (Born's rule)?
Awarded Sep 10 '19 at 1:10
From where the so-named “elastica problem” is coming from?
Awarded Aug 31 '19 at 15:05
Earliest use of the word 'polytropic' to describe an equation of state or process
Awarded Aug 30 '19 at 2:50
When was it found that a function could be decomposed as a sum of even and odd functions?
Awarded Aug 21 '19 at 2:20
Notation for fiber bundles - why E for total space?
Awarded Aug 20 '19 at 18:05
Where did the false “equal transit-time” explanation of lift originate from?
Awarded Aug 19 '19 at 1:10
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