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Why did the romans use IV and why doesn't it overcomplicate things?
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Why don't inventors clearly describe or expound their ideas?
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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?
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How was charge to mass ratio measured via electrolysis in 19th century?
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Did Abraham De Moivre really predict his own death?
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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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Origin of Q for the set of rational numbers?
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Were Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion the first formal definition of an ellipse?
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Mathematical research institutes similar to Banff and Oberwolfach [closed]
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How long have people been debunking the P value (statistical significance) as commonly used in the human sciences: medicine, psychology and so on?
Awarded Apr 20 at 12:53
When was the special relation between sides in a triangle with an angle of 60 or 120 degrees written for the first time?
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Who is the Dottie number named after?
Awarded Apr 17 at 16:36
A technical and historical introduction to quantum mechanics
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First time the real numbers were axiomatized as the “unique complete ordered field”
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A branch of mathematics which refused to be rigorous?
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Did Einstein propose a perpetual motion machine to try to disprove quantum mechanics?
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Did Lorentz remain an ether advocate till his death?
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Why was there a thirty year gap between the compactness theorem and nonstandard analysis?
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History of rotational / rigid body mechanics
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What was the influence of Gauss on the understanding of the importance of non-Euclidean geometry?
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When was “Faraday's Law of Induction” first expressed in a quantified form?
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How did Newton originally formulate the Law of Cooling?
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In what sense was it thought (at one point) that every lattice was distributive?
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Who coined the 'particle zoo' expression?
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Could 17th century astronomers in the Netherlands predict solar eclipses a few months in advance?
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Why did al-Khwarizmi use al jebr, ‘the reuniting of broken parts’ to signify algebra?
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Martian dust as ferric oxide and Rupert Wildt
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What are the definitive experiments/phenomena which motivate quantum mechanics?
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Was the sun assumed to be at rest aether frame?
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Who was Paul Gerwien?
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What are the earliest known proofs that planimeters 'work'?
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Source of a quote typically attributed to Proclus Lycaeus
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Why is Freeth's nephroid called a nephroid?
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Was the idea that the result of division of positive number by negative number should be negative ever been controversial?
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Where were mathematical/science works posted before the arxiv website?
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What did Roger Apery mean by “Oh they grow in my garden”
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How old are the shape of the numbers based on the number of angles?
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Heyting and Lugano
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History of Fatou's Lemma
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What is the oldest open question solved in mathematics?
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How did polar coordinates come into existence?
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Using Leonardo of Pisa's table of Chords
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How did people make things perfectly straight?
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History of irreducible polynomials and motivation for them
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What changes in mathematics resulted in the change of the definition of primes and exclusion of 1?
Awarded Dec 21 '20 at 17:45
Why we got so many geniuses after 19th century? [closed]
Awarded Dec 20 '20 at 10:52
Who was Fleury? And what was his first name?
Awarded Dec 17 '20 at 20:15
How did Antonius Van den Broek come up with his hypothesis that the atomic number matches the charge of the nucleus?
Awarded Dec 16 '20 at 9:26
When was nicotine identified as an addictive substance?
Awarded Dec 14 '20 at 10:56
Who were some mathematicians who have a musical background?
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Names of the electromagnetic units in SI
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Significance of Higgs model used in Glashow-Salam-Weinberg theory
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Is there an analog of Ginga style in mathematics? [closed]
Awarded Nov 22 '20 at 5:41
An English translation of Simon Stevin's De Thiende
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Differences between modern and old mathematical notations
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