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History of Science and Mathematics

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Awarded 19 times.
What did Einstein contribute to Special Relativity that hadn't already been done by Lorentz in 1904 and Poincaré in 1905?
Awarded Mar 20 at 14:56
What makes the right angle special enough to be distinguished in the French metric system?
Awarded Feb 5 at 22:31
Timeline of measurements of the electron's charge
Awarded Dec 19, 2023 at 7:01
How did Eratosthenes know the Sun was very far away?
Awarded Dec 18, 2023 at 20:19
Is it true that Albert Einstein was kicked out of high school due to his "peacefulness"?
Awarded Feb 21, 2023 at 2:58
What hair color did Évariste Galois have?
Awarded Jul 16, 2022 at 18:56
Writing Mathematical Symbols in 20th century
Awarded Mar 11, 2022 at 15:35
Why did no one else, except Einstein, work on developing General Relativity between 1905-1915?
Awarded Aug 26, 2021 at 23:55
How did people make things perfectly straight?
Awarded Jan 31, 2021 at 22:21
Why did algebraic geometry need Alexander Grothendieck?
Awarded Jul 26, 2020 at 21:11
What led to the fall of Göttingen?
Awarded May 1, 2020 at 16:16
What motivated Cantor to invent set theory?
Awarded Mar 31, 2020 at 22:15
Why do we call Tycho Brahe by his first name?
Awarded Jan 6, 2020 at 9:30
Why volt instead of volta?
Awarded Jan 2, 2020 at 22:20
Which came first, the natural logarithm or the base of the natural logarithm?
Awarded Jul 30, 2017 at 20:25
What's the famous story about a mathematician who gave a talk without saying a word?
Awarded Nov 17, 2016 at 3:28
What is Ptolemy holding in this picture?
Awarded Jun 23, 2016 at 18:34
What famous theorems or results were proven by female mathematicians?
Awarded Oct 21, 2015 at 14:07
What evidence is there that Fermat had a proof for his Last Theorem?
Awarded Aug 18, 2015 at 13:58