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History of Science and Mathematics

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Who was this scientist who saw his whole theory(ies) demolished by a publication
Awarded Sep 5 at 20:13
How did Kepler devise his three laws?
Awarded Sep 3 at 23:27
Seeking quote about Georges Lemaître and visualization of 4 dimensions
Awarded Sep 1 at 1:55
Is there a resource about integer constructions and motivations?
Awarded Aug 31 at 16:04
Was it understood in the first century AD that some diseases are sexually transmitted?
Awarded Aug 31 at 15:55
Arthur Lunn and the Schrödinger equation
Awarded Aug 24 at 12:34
What language did Descartes use when he lived in the Netherlands?
Awarded Aug 21 at 19:27
Why does the year start in January rather than March?
Awarded Aug 14 at 12:16
How did Jost Bürgi's logarithms work?
Awarded Aug 13 at 16:56
What are some examples of elegant solutions?
Awarded Aug 11 at 21:15
Did Einstein say the one-way speed-of-light is "not a fact of nature"?
Awarded Aug 8 at 21:49
What is the historical origin of the concept of calculating area by multiplying length and width?
Awarded Aug 6 at 17:40
Searching for the first ever use of Newtonian physics
Awarded Jul 31 at 14:50
Egyptian origin of Euclid's axiomatisation of geometry
Awarded Jul 25 at 9:35
Why are the categories of category theory called "category"?
Awarded Jul 21 at 12:55
Historically, when were the terrestrial planets first called terrestrial planets?
Awarded Jul 20 at 7:07
A Comprehensive Masterpiece on History of Science
Awarded Jul 16 at 12:25
Source for a story about algebraic number theory?
Awarded Jul 11 at 23:16
Who first proved the "Fundamental Theorem of Well-Ordered Sets"
Awarded Jul 8 at 12:30
Regula Pigri: How far does it date back?
Awarded Jul 7 at 13:03
Books using the axiomatic method
Awarded Jul 1 at 10:19
Was there experimental data underlying Einstein's $E=mc^2$?
Awarded Jun 30 at 1:05
Does Henry Rice's doctoral dissertation exist online?
Awarded Jun 29 at 19:06
Who are some famous statisticians from the 20th and 21st centuries, who didn't have a formal training in statistics?
Awarded Jun 29 at 13:15
Folk stories and notions in mathematics that are likely false, inaccurate, apocryphal, or poorly founded?
Awarded Jun 27 at 17:25
Historically are there any documented attempts at finding algorithms that are asymptotically faster than the FFT for the Discrete Fourier Transform?
Awarded Jun 26 at 11:07
History of Leibniz' notation
Awarded Jun 23 at 19:16
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Awarded Jun 13 at 0:08
Were there any criticisms of his first FTA proof during Gauss's lifetime?
Awarded Jun 10 at 9:26
Why coin "Apophänie" for delusional revelations of a schizophrenic?
Awarded Jun 9 at 23:23
When was the ‘mathematics department’ first established in universities?
Awarded Jun 8 at 4:57
Was it after Riemann's death that Weierstrass gave a counterexample to Riemann's mapping theorem?
Awarded Jun 6 at 11:07
Did Riemann take for granted the existence of a function that achieves the minimum in the ‘Dirichlet principle’?
Awarded Jun 5 at 14:12
Who is Rudolf Bach?
Awarded Jun 4 at 9:12
From which university did Riemann acquired Ph.D?
Awarded Jun 4 at 9:07
Why isn't Boethius's Thesis more commonly accepted in mathematics and logic?
Awarded Jun 3 at 18:55
Is it true that Aryabhata explicitly understood or stated the irrationality of $\pi$?
Awarded May 31 at 21:16
How did Rutherford estimate the number of Au atoms in the foil in his experiment?
Awarded May 30 at 13:11
Why Isaac Newton published his discoveries so much later than he discovered them?
Awarded May 27 at 4:32
What did Gauss think about infinite?
Awarded May 26 at 8:07
What does Dijkstra mean with his title "on the cruelty of really teaching computing science"?
Awarded May 26 at 1:33
Who was Riemann's most admired mathematician?
Awarded May 25 at 12:42
Gauss has proven FTA several times. Are any of Gauss's FTA proofs considered rigorous in modern mathematics?
Awarded May 19 at 12:36
Is Gauss’ nickname really ‘The Prince of Mathematics’?
Awarded May 19 at 11:57
What is the oldest way to measure the voltage?
Awarded May 16 at 5:28
Why Did Riemann Venture into Number Theory for the Riemann Hypothesis?
Awarded May 14 at 10:01
Did Poincaré ever make mistakes in the books or papers he published? [closed]
Awarded May 13 at 13:40
Was Bell’s theorem historically seen as evidence against realism and determinism?
Awarded May 7 at 15:30
What is the origin (and perhaps original) of this quote by André Weil
Awarded May 7 at 3:50
The contribution of Rosalind Franklin to the Watson–Crick structure of DNA
Awarded May 6 at 19:56
How did Fourier know an infinite number of frequencies were required to solve the heat equation?
Awarded May 4 at 22:15
Ancient Greek Definition of Area
Awarded May 3 at 19:34
Why was FFT needed to detect Soviet nuclear tests?
Awarded Apr 30 at 3:57
Is there a synthetic chart of modern cosmology, showing the dependencies between measurements and laws?
Awarded Apr 29 at 21:05
Earliest real-world uses of calculus and linear algebra
Awarded Apr 23 at 0:20
Looking for a letter written by Gauss in which he remarks that he has worked very hard on mathematics
Awarded Apr 17 at 14:27
Help With Understanding of Constants in Zeller's Congruence
Awarded Apr 16 at 6:27
Who "made" Gauss?
Awarded Apr 15 at 11:18
What factors make a technology grow exponentially over time? (e.g., as in Moore's Law)
Awarded Apr 7 at 18:35
About the acceptance of Newton's light experiment
Awarded Apr 5 at 14:55
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