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Are these Newton's quotes apocryphal?
Awarded Oct 15 at 11:10
Conventional orientation of axes in scientific plots
Awarded Oct 13 at 21:00
Who first proved that the spectrum of an operator is contained in the closure of its numerical range?
Awarded Oct 10 at 17:25
What was the real need of divergence and curl operators?
Awarded Oct 9 at 4:05
Who discovered anisotropic materials, and what were they studying?
Awarded Oct 8 at 11:10
Reference Request: Did Descartes leave solving the quintic as an exercise to his readers?
Awarded Oct 6 at 4:30
What is the origin of the $\hbar$ symbol?
Awarded Sep 29 at 9:30
Where did the term “set-builder notation” come from?
Awarded Sep 29 at 0:15
What did Kaspar contribute to the gene therapy for spinal muscular atrophy?
Awarded Sep 28 at 12:50
Reference for history of physics with description of mathematical models
Awarded Sep 27 at 16:25
Why are 'speed' and 'velocity' not given the same name?
Awarded Sep 24 at 11:20
How did Bombelli transform $\sqrt[3]{2\pm11\sqrt{-1}}$ into $2\pm\sqrt{-1}$?
Awarded Sep 23 at 5:35
First time the unique factorization theorem was called FTA
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When did mathematicians transition from peg and rope to straightedege and compass?
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Where does the material implication come from, if not from George Boole?
Awarded Sep 13 at 10:45
What did Sommerfeld mean by Bohr's magic wand?
Awarded Sep 11 at 6:35
Where did Einstein propose interpreting the square of amplitude as probability density (Born's rule)?
Awarded Sep 10 at 1:10
From where the so-named “elastica problem” is coming from?
Awarded Aug 31 at 15:05
Earliest use of the word 'polytropic' to describe an equation of state or process
Awarded Aug 30 at 2:50
When was it found that a function could be decomposed as a sum of even and odd functions?
Awarded Aug 21 at 2:20
Notation for fiber bundles - why E for total space?
Awarded Aug 20 at 18:05
Where did the false “equal transit-time” explanation of lift originate from?
Awarded Aug 19 at 1:10
How did Hagoromo Fulltouch chalk gain so much popularity among mathematicians in the West?
Awarded Aug 17 at 10:55
Origin of the “law of quadratic reciprocity”
Awarded Aug 14 at 4:05
What is the origin of the Chinese Stick Multiplication method?
Awarded Aug 9 at 12:55
Did the principles of celestial mechanics affect the development of electromagnetism?
Awarded Aug 7 at 23:35
On the history of Haar measure
Awarded Aug 6 at 15:45
Who invented the gradient descent algorithm?
Awarded Jul 27 at 23:25
What was this experiment tainted by the observer effect?
Awarded Jul 22 at 0:25
Was there a more intuitive early proof of the generalized mean value theorem?
Awarded Jul 20 at 9:50
Why did Schrödinger write a letter to Einstein “apologizing profusely for his duplicity”?
Awarded Jul 9 at 20:55
Source of claim that Leibniz discovered separation of variables for ODEs in 1691?
Awarded Jul 9 at 20:10
Why are “join” and “meet” named as they are?
Awarded Jul 5 at 21:05
How did the use of the word “origin” become commonplace in geometry?
Awarded Jul 2 at 15:10
What cipher(s) did Isaac Newton use?
Awarded Jun 28 at 18:15
Gauss's proofs of quadratic reciprocity
Awarded Jun 24 at 4:55
Why are X and Y commonly used as mathematical placeholders?
Awarded Jun 23 at 18:15
When and how did the notion/idea of physical constant emerge?
Awarded Jun 23 at 12:00
Was Lord Kelvin at any point a proponent of vitalism?
Awarded Jun 18 at 7:10
How were negative numbers first used in physics?
Awarded Jun 11 at 3:25
Why is the meaning of “linear” different in school and college use?
Awarded Jun 7 at 15:40
Feynman story: providing two different explanations for the same phenomenon
Awarded Jun 6 at 8:25
Which physicist is this quote attributed to?
Awarded Jun 6 at 0:00
What does it mean by “d-ism of Leibniz” and “dotage of Newton” in simple English?
Awarded May 31 at 21:50
What are the great works of Richard Phillips Feynman? [closed]
Awarded May 31 at 9:50
Euler's Derivation of Euler's Method for ODEs
Awarded May 27 at 15:20
Definitions of continuity pre-Dedekind
Awarded May 25 at 18:15
How did Henry Cavendish deduce the inverse square law in electrostatics from his experiment in 1772?
Awarded May 24 at 13:45
Kite experiment
Awarded May 22 at 15:40
What animals or plants were used to illustrate ideas of physics?
Awarded May 21 at 19:00
Robert Boyle discovery of electricity
Awarded May 18 at 9:35
What are the references for Riemann's discussion of gravity?
Awarded May 10 at 19:55
Why would Margaret Hamilton and her team at NASA print the code on paper?
Awarded May 9 at 0:45
What were the typical ways students were taught the elements when it remained the prime textbook of mathematics?
Awarded Apr 30 at 9:30
When did stoichiometry begin to be taught in U.S. high schools?
Awarded Apr 30 at 0:10
How did the obelus ÷ come to stand for division?
Awarded Apr 28 at 11:45
Influence of Poincaré on Julia and Fatou
Awarded Apr 26 at 12:30
When did people start to state and justify properties of arithmetical operations?
Awarded Apr 22 at 9:10
Did Galileo really see Galilean Moons?
Awarded Apr 22 at 1:55
Where did Ptolemy compare the Earth to the distance of fixed stars?
Awarded Apr 21 at 22:55
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