History of Science and Mathematics

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Did Gauss find the formula for $1+2+3+\ldots+(n-2)+(n-1)+n$ in elementary school?
Awarded Apr 19, 2019 at 17:55
When were vectors invented?
Awarded Apr 17, 2019 at 19:35
Why is there little scholarship devoted to Book II of Newton's Principia?
Awarded Apr 12, 2019 at 20:55
Is anything known about part II of John McCarthy's Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine Part II?
Awarded Mar 27, 2019 at 14:35
Max Planck's reaction to Einstein's 1905 STR Paper
Awarded Mar 22, 2019 at 1:25
What theorem of Sophus Lie on the number of geometries is H. Poincaré referring to?
Awarded Mar 15, 2019 at 17:45
What are natural science concepts that were once thought the same, but grew to be distinguished?
Awarded Mar 10, 2019 at 19:15
When were problem sets included in Science/math textbooks?
Awarded Jan 21, 2019 at 22:10
Why don't we learn Buridan's laws of motion?
Awarded Jan 6, 2019 at 15:15
Did Michel Rolle say that the calculus is "a collection of ingenious fallacies"?
Awarded Dec 1, 2018 at 3:50
Did Gauss say "there have been but three epoch-making mathematicians, Archimedes, Newton and Eisenstein"?
Awarded Nov 12, 2018 at 0:25
On what basis did Kennedy think that humans could land on the moon so quickly?
Awarded Nov 6, 2018 at 2:25
What inspired Nicholson to break water into hydrogen and oxygen with electricity?
Awarded Aug 30, 2018 at 17:30
The Greeks did not discover "a single scientific law"
Awarded Aug 5, 2018 at 22:50
Origin of 360 degrees?
Awarded Jul 26, 2018 at 7:00
Was Dirac really trying to take the square root of the Klein-Gordon operator?
Awarded Jul 19, 2018 at 23:07
What were 12 year old Pitts' objections to Principia Mathematica?
Awarded Jul 5, 2018 at 14:34
Help translate from German a quote by Hermann Weyl in Space Time Matter
Awarded Jul 5, 2018 at 12:52
History of Galois Theory after Galois
Awarded May 28, 2018 at 20:39
Who is Donald L. Webb
Awarded May 24, 2018 at 18:04
How was geometry historically used to solve polynomial equations?
Awarded May 6, 2018 at 12:38
Does Lakatos' argument in favour of 'informal mathematics' hold up in most cases?
Awarded Mar 26, 2018 at 13:16
What was Euler's first language?
Awarded Mar 21, 2018 at 20:39
What equation is Stephen Hawking most noted for?
Awarded Mar 19, 2018 at 14:47
How was difference in water pressure perceived in ancient cultures or the middle ages?
Awarded Mar 16, 2018 at 9:48
How did artillery and physics co-evolve during 1400-1700?
Awarded Mar 15, 2018 at 7:47
Who discovered that different objects accelerate at the same rate due to gravity?
Awarded Feb 24, 2018 at 22:17
When did it become possible to predict the time and place of solar eclipses?
Awarded Feb 20, 2018 at 20:49
Why didn't Euclid's Elements treat conic sections?
Awarded Feb 17, 2018 at 13:20
Why did I learn to write the base of the logarithm differently from the rest of the world?
Awarded Feb 2, 2018 at 9:52
What did Fermat do as a lawyer?
Awarded Jan 31, 2018 at 16:25
Dirichlet integral's history
Awarded Dec 26, 2017 at 13:54
What attracted Einstein to the anomalous precession of Mercury?
Awarded Dec 5, 2017 at 11:26
A knot cannot be tied in 4-dimensions, but when was this conjectured and proven?
Awarded Oct 26, 2017 at 2:11
Concerning the measurement of the Earth's circumference by Eratosthenes
Awarded Oct 17, 2017 at 7:59
Did du Bois-Reymond invent the diagonal argument before Cantor?
Awarded Aug 18, 2017 at 18:20
What were Hilbert's weekly 1933 lectures on "matters of general intellectual interest" about?
Awarded Aug 3, 2017 at 15:05
How much did John Nash contribute to proving the Riemann hypothesis?
Awarded Jul 28, 2017 at 20:30
Why do we say "Matrices" and "Vertices", but "Complexes" rather than "Complices"?
Awarded May 29, 2017 at 13:29
Why and when did some areas separate themselves from philosophy and some not?
Awarded May 28, 2017 at 6:42
Where did John Wallis get the idea for $\infty$?
Awarded May 3, 2017 at 22:30
How did the publication feat of Einstein's four 1905 Annus Mirabilis papers get through peer review?
Awarded Apr 17, 2017 at 1:04
Famous Scientific Conflicts and Controversies
Awarded Apr 14, 2017 at 20:51
How did "publish or perish" become the scientific priority rule?
Awarded Apr 12, 2017 at 16:58
What did Kurt Gödel mean by nonstandard analysis being "the analysis of the future"?
Awarded Mar 2, 2017 at 13:25
What is the origin of the Collatz conjecture?
Awarded Feb 28, 2017 at 12:46
Why wasn't probability developed in ancient Greece?
Awarded Jan 27, 2017 at 19:31
How did Planck derive the black body radiation formula without using the Bose statistics?
Awarded Jan 19, 2017 at 1:44
What data did Kepler work out his laws from?
Awarded Dec 14, 2016 at 14:39
Origin of the concept of dimension?
Awarded Dec 7, 2016 at 4:40
How was Einstein led to make a contact with Differential Geometry for his theory of General Relativity?
Awarded Nov 12, 2016 at 21:41
What is the origin of "an algebra" as in vector space with multiplication?
Awarded Nov 12, 2016 at 12:57
Why did 18th century writers think that Mars had 2 satellites?
Awarded Nov 12, 2016 at 6:28
When and why did the concept of relativistic mass become outdated?
Awarded Nov 1, 2016 at 16:13
What were the earliest “unpleasant” consequences of the Axiom of Choice (and its negation) to be deduced?
Awarded Oct 27, 2016 at 18:13
How did Ramanujan learn to do mathematics?
Awarded Aug 28, 2016 at 17:26
Who is the second person Kolmogorov supposedly thought possessed some kind of "higher intelligence"?
Awarded Jul 28, 2016 at 23:00
Who are some great scientists/mathematicians with not-so-great pre/mid-career credentials?
Awarded Jul 18, 2016 at 22:03
What were the dominant non-atomic theories of matter in the 19th century?
Awarded Jul 15, 2016 at 9:27
Was Galileo a plagiarizer?
Awarded Jul 7, 2016 at 16:22
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