History of Science and Mathematics

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What is the history of moment generating functions, and the more general characteristic functions?
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Who was the first woman to complete the physics and mathematics program in Zürich?
Awarded Sep 5 at 10:16
How does Legendre transformation in classical mechanics relate to Adrien-Marie Legendre?
Awarded Sep 5 at 2:36
is the shape of the Greek letter pi inspired in the Lion's Gate at Mycenae?
Awarded Sep 3 at 7:41
What was the real need of divergence and curl operators?
Awarded Aug 24 at 6:35
The Original Title of "Euclid's Elements"
Awarded Aug 14 at 21:36
Autistic Assistant of Gauss used to check Primality
Awarded Aug 1 at 23:02
Was Paul Cohen a student or assistant of Gödel?
Awarded Jul 20 at 4:30
When was it discovered that the Earth wasn't round?
Awarded Jun 27 at 2:11
What algebra problem did Serge Lang give to calculus students?
Awarded Jun 13 at 6:52
Invalid mathematical proof that was considered valid for the longest period of time?
Awarded Jun 11 at 16:42
What are the references for Riemann's discussion of gravity?
Awarded Jun 4 at 2:15
Have all of Euler's works been translated?
Awarded May 31 at 12:16
Could ancient astronomers have proven heliocentrism?
Awarded May 30 at 0:05
What is the earliest mention of doubling grains on a chessboard story?
Awarded May 28 at 18:41
What was so hard about discovering/inventing the number zero?
Awarded May 10 at 0:33
Historical origin of commas and periods in numbers
Awarded May 4 at 20:27
What did the study plan of a early 20th century mathematics undergraduate program look like?
Awarded May 4 at 3:55
Why is differentiation under the integral sign named the Leibniz rule?
Awarded Apr 24 at 22:17
Is there any evidence De Morgan abandoned probability theory due to it being "too tricky/non-intuitive/difficult"?
Awarded Apr 22 at 12:02
Heisenberg's Obituary to Pauli
Awarded Apr 21 at 15:15
How did gyromagnetic ratio come up before quantum mechanics, and who introduced it?
Awarded Apr 19 at 9:46
Who were the attendees to the SGA3 seminar?
Awarded Apr 8 at 17:41
How did Isaac Newton write the integral symbol?
Awarded Mar 31 at 14:40
How did Ptolemy know that days were unequal lengths?
Awarded Mar 25 at 7:30
On early US patriotism to choose quark color charge labels
Awarded Mar 20 at 20:27
Is Koestler's ‘The Sleepwalkers’ still well regarded? Is there a more recent similar source?
Awarded Mar 10 at 12:53
Euler: “A baby on his lap, a cat on his back — that’s how he wrote his immortal works” (origin?)
Awarded Mar 4 at 13:50
Did Turing invent the imitation game? Did he name it?
Awarded Mar 1 at 15:45
Poincaré's definition of mathematics (?)
Awarded Feb 23 at 16:28
Is it true that Albert Einstein was kicked out of high school due to his "peacefulness"?
Awarded Feb 20 at 13:49
Why is Freeth's nephroid called a nephroid?
Awarded Feb 5 at 1:32
How and when did the dedicated study of locally compact groups begin?
Awarded Jan 14 at 0:10
What did the ancient Greeks know about the solar system, and how?
Awarded Dec 29, 2022 at 13:18
Inscriptions on Newton's tomb
Awarded Dec 13, 2022 at 20:43
What was the full name of I. Bernard Cohen?
Awarded Dec 2, 2022 at 9:45
When was the earliest use of log-log plots to demonstrate power-law behavior?
Awarded Nov 7, 2022 at 20:05
Fibonacci and straightedge and compass constructions
Awarded Oct 22, 2022 at 1:12
Origin of identity: $\int\limits_{-\infty}^{\infty} \exp\{ - \pi x^2 - 2 \pi^{1/2} a x\} \,da = \exp\left\{a^2\right\}$
Awarded Sep 29, 2022 at 11:36
How did 'N. Bourbaki' address a conference?
Awarded Sep 8, 2022 at 1:11
What is the historical reasoning for electron orbital names?
Awarded Sep 7, 2022 at 11:51
Was it suspected that the speed of electricity was equal to the speed of light?
Awarded Sep 4, 2022 at 22:22
Did most or just few physicists think in 1900 that there was nothing important left to discover?
Awarded Aug 28, 2022 at 21:45
Why did Borel reject countable additivity of probability?
Awarded Aug 27, 2022 at 17:04
Who was Antoine Appert, the eponym of the Appert Topology and Appert Space?
Awarded Aug 23, 2022 at 15:48
Who was first to explain intuitively the inverse square law of gravity?
Awarded Aug 23, 2022 at 15:22
Exact source that Descartes had observed that $V-E+F=2$ for planar graphs
Awarded Aug 19, 2022 at 2:45
What changes in mathematics resulted in the change of the definition of primes and exclusion of 1?
Awarded Aug 8, 2022 at 8:27
What is the origin of the negation ( ¬ ) operator from logic?
Awarded Aug 4, 2022 at 12:41
Who was N.M. Stephens who refuted the Stronger Feit-Thompson Conjecture?
Awarded Jul 28, 2022 at 16:51
Why isn't the symbol for Beryllium 'B' rather than 'Be'?
Awarded Jul 26, 2022 at 21:33
What actually led Feynman to the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics?
Awarded Jul 24, 2022 at 22:45
Why are the symbols E, F, G, L, M, and N used for the coefficients of the fundamental forms?
Awarded Jul 21, 2022 at 10:57
Who was Richard Thompson?
Awarded Jul 9, 2022 at 21:19
Secrecy in Mathematics
Awarded Jul 4, 2022 at 2:21
What mathematics did Isaac Newton learn at school?
Awarded Jun 13, 2022 at 11:18
Does Blum's speedup theorem have any conceptual predecessors?
Awarded Jun 4, 2022 at 22:02
Is the anecdote about Niels Bohr keeping a horseshoe on his door true?
Awarded May 30, 2022 at 7:33
What was Richard Courant's saying about mathematical research apart from applications?
Awarded May 18, 2022 at 20:42
Context behind Planck's "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents...but rather because its opponents eventually die..."?
Awarded May 11, 2022 at 22:32
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