History of Science and Mathematics

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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
When did plagiarism become a major misconduct in academia?
Awarded Apr 22, 2022 at 2:06
What book did Maria Gaetana Agnesi write which contained both differential and integral calculus?
Awarded Apr 12, 2022 at 10:11
Euler's first proof of $e^{ix}=\cos(x)+i\sin(x)$
Awarded Apr 12, 2022 at 10:11
How did Newton prove the generalised binomial theorem?
Awarded Mar 20, 2022 at 19:33
What did Schroedinger try to say with the cat thought experiment?
Awarded Feb 21, 2022 at 22:17
Was there a period of doubt in the history of the Higgs mechanism?
Awarded Feb 16, 2022 at 7:06
Why didn't the phase space formulation of Quantum Mechanics get the upper hand?
Awarded Feb 11, 2022 at 3:41
History of Direct Sums and Direct Products
Awarded Jan 23, 2022 at 0:33
Who invented the divisibility symbol and why is it backwards?
Awarded Jan 21, 2022 at 10:25
Did president Garfield make any contributions to Mathematics?
Awarded Jan 20, 2022 at 17:10
Why was Hausdorff not able to move to United States from Nazi Germany?
Awarded Jan 13, 2022 at 6:41
How did people explain color before the splitting of white light was discovered?
Awarded Jan 9, 2022 at 2:42
What makes the right angle special enough to be distinguished in the French metric system?
Awarded Jan 5, 2022 at 18:25
How long has the order of priority of arithmetical operations been widely taught in high schools?
Awarded Dec 26, 2021 at 11:15
Who said that math or statistics is not free from class interest?
Awarded Nov 24, 2021 at 7:57
What was the vis viva controversy, including its philosophical aspects?
Awarded Nov 5, 2021 at 22:48
Who was Paul Gerwien?
Awarded Sep 15, 2021 at 18:10
How did cartographers of past centuries determine latitude and longitude?
Awarded Sep 5, 2021 at 23:37
Did Bacon analogize planets to holes in the head to explain why their number was (believed to be) seven?
Awarded Sep 5, 2021 at 6:55
Does Arnold say that Hardy is responsible for Ramanujan's untimely death?
Awarded Sep 3, 2021 at 13:01
When do we see for the first time the use of the Cartesian coordinates?
Awarded Aug 25, 2021 at 3:37
What are some early examples of large international scientific collaborations?
Awarded Aug 24, 2021 at 17:35
What hair color did Évariste Galois have?
Awarded Aug 6, 2021 at 20:57
Emmy Noether or Emmy Nöther?
Awarded Jun 22, 2021 at 17:10
Where are Galois's notes?
Awarded Jun 20, 2021 at 8:50
Did Cauchy forget or lose mathematical papers aside from Abel's and Galois's?
Awarded Jun 15, 2021 at 9:03
What are the earliest known proofs that planimeters 'work'?
Awarded Jun 10, 2021 at 18:08
Mathematics development can sometimes **exceed** the practical needs, right?
Awarded Jun 8, 2021 at 15:05
How much did scholasticism contribute to logic and mathematics?
Awarded May 17, 2021 at 12:46
Did Euler produce any Russian text?
Awarded May 16, 2021 at 3:33
A branch of mathematics which refused to be rigorous?
Awarded May 15, 2021 at 17:41
Origin of Q for the set of rational numbers?
Awarded May 5, 2021 at 15:33
When and where did scientific publications become the norm in mathematics?
Awarded Apr 30, 2021 at 20:05
Did Lorentz remain an ether advocate till his death?
Awarded Apr 9, 2021 at 22:56
How did Grothendieck encounter and adopt the categorical language?
Awarded Mar 14, 2021 at 6:15
What led to the rise of Göttingen?
Awarded Mar 9, 2021 at 3:46
How was curvature originally defined and calculated?
Awarded Mar 5, 2021 at 9:15
Did Hooke's law come from experiments, or was it mathematically derived from Newtonian mechanics?
Awarded Mar 4, 2021 at 12:58
Is the story about Fermat's writing on a margin true?
Awarded Feb 26, 2021 at 15:11
Who discovered the difference between the infinities?
Awarded Feb 16, 2021 at 12:11
Where were mathematical/science works posted before the arxiv website?
Awarded Jan 28, 2021 at 7:20
Where does the name eigenvalue come from?
Awarded Jan 26, 2021 at 17:30
Story of a student who solves an open problem
Awarded Jan 23, 2021 at 14:20
When was nicotine identified as an addictive substance?
Awarded Jan 6, 2021 at 0:34
History of irreducible polynomials and motivation for them
Awarded Jan 4, 2021 at 21:47
Which mathematician traveled to and moved in with each collaborator?
Awarded Dec 7, 2020 at 9:26
Why did no one else, except Einstein, work on developing General Relativity between 1905-1915?
Awarded Dec 6, 2020 at 9:10
Galois quote about his refused work
Awarded Nov 10, 2020 at 16:16
(Co)Homology: From topology to the rest of mathematics?
Awarded Nov 5, 2020 at 21:05
Why did Galileo express himself in terms of ratios when describing laws of accelerated motion?
Awarded Nov 5, 2020 at 5:26
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