History of Science and Mathematics

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What did Delaunay invent Delaunay triangulations for before computers were developed?
Awarded Nov 1, 2020 at 18:34
What exactly was the Rutherford model of the atom?
Awarded Oct 8, 2020 at 22:09
Some references for Vladimir Arnold's thesis "Mathematics is a part of physics"?
Awarded Oct 8, 2020 at 17:32
Why were 18th century mathematicians interested in extending the factorial to non-integers?
Awarded Oct 2, 2020 at 10:35
Why didn't the Roman numeral system have a zero digit of its own?
Awarded Sep 1, 2020 at 11:05
Who did say that anyone who discover a new particle should be fined instead of receiving a prize?
Awarded Aug 26, 2020 at 22:50
Was Kolmogorov enraged after learning about the Karatsuba multiplication algorithm?
Awarded Aug 14, 2020 at 10:01
Origin of $\ll$ notation
Awarded Aug 12, 2020 at 22:21
Who said that essentially everything in theoretical physics had already been discovered?
Awarded Aug 10, 2020 at 19:57
What are some major examples of rushed scientific publications based on flawed data?
Awarded Jul 19, 2020 at 11:12
Where did the term "set-builder notation" come from?
Awarded Jul 18, 2020 at 15:28
Who helped Watson and Crick discover DNA?
Awarded Jul 15, 2020 at 14:40
Who is the lady on the image?
Awarded Jul 13, 2020 at 13:33
Why didn't John von Neumann win the Turing Award, Fields Medal or Nobel Prize?
Awarded Jul 11, 2020 at 17:36
How did 19th century physicists do their undergraduate/graduate studies?
Awarded Jul 9, 2020 at 6:08
Why is Mendeleev credited with the discovery of the periodic table much more often than Meyer?
Awarded Jun 21, 2020 at 22:55
How did Young perform his double slit experiment?
Awarded Jun 17, 2020 at 6:27
Who was the first person to notice logarithms of negatives numbers and for what reason?
Awarded May 21, 2020 at 19:17
Who was Heinrich Kornblum?
Awarded May 10, 2020 at 14:08
Where did Rayleigh derive the ultraviolet catastrophe?
Awarded Apr 17, 2020 at 16:26
What was the first electronic computer?
Awarded Apr 13, 2020 at 2:40
Quotation about $\pi$ and the number of deaths
Awarded Apr 6, 2020 at 5:20
When was the term "corollary" first used in proofs?
Awarded Mar 23, 2020 at 18:50
How were negative numbers first used in physics?
Awarded Mar 22, 2020 at 20:00
Why is one meter as long as it is?
Awarded Feb 28, 2020 at 20:20
What's that on Euler's head? Does the head covering shown in Emanuel Handmann 1753 painting signify scholarship?
Awarded Feb 23, 2020 at 14:30
Who first solved the classical harmonic oscillator?
Awarded Feb 18, 2020 at 14:25
When was the first recorded occurence of irrational and imaginary number usage in number theory?
Awarded Feb 7, 2020 at 19:05
Who discovered pigeonhole principle in mathematics?
Awarded Feb 1, 2020 at 17:10
Notation from Weyl's algebraic number theory book
Awarded Jan 22, 2020 at 3:35
Why do we call Tycho Brahe by his first name?
Awarded Jan 3, 2020 at 17:35
Historical occurrences of mathematicians substituting terms for $x$ in the denominator of $\mathrm{d}y/\mathrm{d}x$?
Awarded Jan 3, 2020 at 2:20
What have we learned from Einstein's unsuccessful dream of unifying electromagnetism and gravity?
Awarded Jan 2, 2020 at 5:30
Is the symbol for set membership $\in$ derived from greek letter $\epsilon$?
Awarded Jan 1, 2020 at 14:00
Why volt instead of volta?
Awarded Jan 1, 2020 at 9:45
Alexander Grothendieck's "stolen" correspondence in 1985?
Awarded Dec 29, 2019 at 2:45
Did Benjamin Franklin know calculus?
Awarded Dec 28, 2019 at 2:55
Who coined the term "iff" for "if and only if"?
Awarded Dec 25, 2019 at 18:10
Who started calling the matrix multiplication "multiplication"?
Awarded Dec 14, 2019 at 23:25
The history and motivation of eigenvectors
Awarded Dec 14, 2019 at 12:25
What was the motive for inventing Gröbner bases?
Awarded Nov 25, 2019 at 20:45
Who was the first to weigh chemical reaction products?
Awarded Nov 4, 2019 at 18:50
Who first considered the $f$ in $f(x)$ as an object in itself, and who decided to call it a function?
Awarded Nov 4, 2019 at 12:10
What was the motivation for Cauchy's Integral Theorem?
Awarded Oct 7, 2019 at 0:55
Why is Einstein's mass-energy relation usually written as $E=mc^2$, and not $\Delta E=\Delta m c^2$?
Awarded Sep 17, 2019 at 5:40
Did Grothendieck really say that he felt "clumsy, even oafish, wandering painfully up an arduous track"?
Awarded Aug 28, 2019 at 21:15
What cipher(s) did Isaac Newton use?
Awarded Jun 28, 2019 at 18:40
Who first introduced the notation $\mathcal{O}$ in algebraic geometry or algebraic number theory
Awarded Jun 18, 2019 at 19:45
Was the continuum hypothesis commonly believed to be independent before Cohen's proof?
Awarded Jun 16, 2019 at 19:50
Who discovered the power rule for derivatives?
Awarded Jun 12, 2019 at 3:40
Were tables of square roots ever in use?
Awarded Jun 11, 2019 at 18:55
What does it mean by "d-ism of Leibniz" and "dotage of Newton" in simple English?
Awarded May 31, 2019 at 22:05
Who discovered the Jordan normal form?
Awarded May 31, 2019 at 19:55
When and why did powers come to be called 'exponents'?
Awarded May 29, 2019 at 18:15
Who invented short and long division?
Awarded May 29, 2019 at 14:00
What is the status of the three crises in the history of mathematics?
Awarded May 22, 2019 at 17:45
Why would Margaret Hamilton and her team at NASA print the code on paper?
Awarded May 14, 2019 at 22:35
Why are there no known Roman mathematicans from the Roman Empire?
Awarded May 4, 2019 at 1:05
Is there an astronomical reason behind the order for the names of days of the week?
Awarded Apr 29, 2019 at 15:40
How was Lagrange appointed professor of mathematics so early?
Awarded Apr 24, 2019 at 5:40
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