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What problem was solved by introducing the dimension of a vector space?
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Source of Einstein's quote 'spooky action at a distance' [duplicate]
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What mathematics did Isaac Newton learn at school?
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Eventually impossible to contribute to science? [closed]
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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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Which conception of a “machine” allows to call “mechanical” the new physics of the 17th century?
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When and WHY did mathematicians start turning their attention to imaginary exponents?
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What is the etymology of “phase space” of a dynamical system?
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Who was Heinrich Kornblum?
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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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Who in history coined the term “character” of a group and why is it called so?
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Were $\sigma$-algebras defined for probability?
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What letters are used in this paper by Halin (1976)?
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How did Weibull derive the three parameter Weibull distribution?
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How did Newton prove his third law of motion?
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Natura non facit saltus (nature does not make jumps), who said that?
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What was the first electronic computer?
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Why were equivalence classes named classes rather than sets?
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Did Gosper or the Borweins first prove Ramanujans formula?
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What is the origin of the term (non-)derogatory matrix?
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How did cartographers of past centuries determined latitude and longitude?
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Who superseded Peano's dot notation in symbolic logic and when?
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Alternatives to «Lost in math: how beauty leads physics astray» by Sabine Hossenfelder?
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Why do some people represent vectors with overbars while others use underlines?
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What is the etymology of lower case p as the operator for the negative of the common logarithm?
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Why is one meter as long as it is?
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The history of the equation $\boldsymbol {Et}-\boldsymbol {tE}=\frac{h}{2\pi i}$
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Origin of $\ll$ notation
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Can you provide pages 7, 8, 25 of the 1969 edition of the Art of Computer Programming?
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What was Isaac Newton's contribution to optics?
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How long would it have taken Cole to multiply the factors of $M_{67}$ on a blackboard?
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Who first solved the classical harmonic oscillator?
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The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
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Who pioneered the study of the sedenions?
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When did trigonometry start using negative numbers?
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Plagiarism at the turn of 20th century
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Why is the existential quantifier symbol ∃ a backwards “E”?
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Why didn't the number zero (0) have a Roman numeral of its own?
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Was Lagrange aware of Hamiltonian mechanics?
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What technology did researchers use to write scientific papers before the computer?
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What was Copernicus trying to mean with 'Mathematics is Written for Mathematicians'?
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Who is Wanner from Rosenrock-Wanner (ROW) methods?
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What is the explanation of rope's strength in Galileo's Two New Sciences?
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Why did Linnaeus equate the phoenix, the mythical bird, with Phoenix, a palm genus?
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What is the original source for Einstein's description of entanglement as “Spooky Action at a Distance”?
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Why do we call Tycho Brahe by his first name?
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Do scientists and mathematicians name their discovery or inventions themselves?
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Why volt instead of volta?
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Is the symbol for set membership $\in$ derived from greek letter $\epsilon$?
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History of “independent and dependent variables”
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Jean-Christophe Yoccoz (May 29, 1957 – September 3, 2016)
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Have orthogonal complex matrices appeared in the literature?
Awarded Dec 29 '19 at 8:40
Was it suspected that the speed of electricity was equal to the speed of light?
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Does Euclid's Elements acknowledge a concept of 0, either directly or indirectly?
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