History of Science and Mathematics

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Whatever happened to parageometrical optics of diffraction?
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Who first noticed violation of aufbau principle of elements like Cr, Cu, Pd, Au, and how?
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Why was Hausdorff not able to move to United States from Nazi Germany?
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Einstein's Objection to Drude Model
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What contributions to mathematics did Napoleon make?
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Are there any portraits of Joseph Fourier other than this one?
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(Where) does Plato define perfect number?
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Why was the term random "variable" applied to a mapping?
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History of word gram-atom / gram-molecule?
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What did Galileo's "pulsilogon" look like?
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How did Alfréd Rényi die?
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Origins of proof in Mathematics
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The Rejection of Solid Orbs by Geo-Heliocentric (Tychonic) model of the solar system
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History of Direct Sums and Direct Products
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What set of criteria led Hamilton to discover the quaternions?
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Was a mathematical connection involved when introducing "graph" of a function and "graph" in graph theory?
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Identification of Rare Newton Statue
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Why is the term "isotropic" used to describe a quadratic form and a vector?
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How to understand Poincaré's interpretation of Newton's anagram "aaaaabbbeeeeii"
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How accurate was the measurement of the period of Earth's orbit in the 19th Century?
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Where can I find Grothendieck's letter of resignation from Bourbaki?
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What is "female seed" in Galen's work?
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What was Einstein's first publication of the final form of general relativity?
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Was there ever a word for 24 like "dozen" for 12? [closed]
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What is the difference between caloric and heat?
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Roughly when did it become accepted by the western scientific community that human space flight could be possible in the future?
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How did Kepler's teacher Mästlin calculate the Golden section?
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When were cephalopods assigned to the taxonomic phylum Mollusca?
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Where can I find the historical information or the stats related to Winning WW2 with the minimum actions using The Bombe Machine of Alan Turing?
Awarded Sep 7 '21 at 21:49
Did Bacon analogize planets to holes in the head to explain why their number was (believed to be) seven?
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Lunar distance measurement reference
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Does Arnold say that Hardy is responsible for Ramanujan's untimely death?
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Did the coordinate system used by Eratosthenes influence the development of the Cartesian coordinate system?
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Why do we still use degrees and cycles if we all implicitly use radians in trigonometric functions?
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Egypt pefsu problem
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What is the origin of the "Japanese bracket"?
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History of interpolation methods - Newton
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Need quote from early 20th century about humanity probably never being able to control (manipulate, see?) a single quantum system
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Original Proof of the Schwarz lemma
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What hair color did Évariste Galois have?
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History of poster sessions
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Confusion on the original article by Lucas
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When were equivalence classes formalized?
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Aziz of Complex Analysis
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Did Poincaré argue against defining terms before you proceed?
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How the random numbers were generated which were used during world war 2(ww2)?
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Who discovered this closed form formula for the n-th prime number?
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When did the word "Real number" begin to be used as an official terminology to refer to both rational and irrational numbers?
Awarded Jul 6 '21 at 22:56
Has physics ever given a physical significance to a mathematically abstract idea?
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When was the concept of “Power” defined?
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Emmy Noether or Emmy Nöther?
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Did ancient Greek mathematicians consider numbers independently of geometry?
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Is there any English translation of this Gergonne paper?
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Who proved Banach fixed point theorem in abstract metric spaces for the first time?
Awarded May 27 '21 at 10:27
How was charge to mass ratio measured via electrolysis in 19th century?
Awarded May 26 '21 at 13:40
Did Abraham De Moivre really predict his own death?
Awarded May 26 '21 at 13:25
Do we know of any ancient 'Introduction to Mathematics' in Ancient Greece, besides "The Elements"? [duplicate]
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Why is there no notation for tetration similar to summation?
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Authenticity of Gauss's Quote "If others reflect on mathematical truths as deeply as I..."
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Did Euler produce any Russian text?
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