History of Science and Mathematics

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What was the role of Schmidt in derivation of the Gram-Schmidt process?
Awarded Dec 6 at 8:31
How do we explain the lack of activity in the study of Latin mathematics?
Awarded Dec 4 at 16:47
Did Caroline Herschel know about the discovery of Neptune?
Awarded Dec 1 at 13:57
In JJ Thomson's cathode ray experiment I need values for the electric field and magnetic field when net force on the cathode beam = 0
Awarded Dec 1 at 0:05
Who are the youngest mathematicians that published an original research article in a peer-reviewed journal?
Awarded Nov 28 at 20:08
What is Cardano trying to say in this passage of his Ars Magna Arithmeticæ?
Awarded Nov 28 at 6:46
Who wrote "projective geometry" for the first time?
Awarded Nov 27 at 15:15
How did someone discover LCM?
Awarded Nov 27 at 14:11
Historic misidentification of transuranium elements?
Awarded Nov 25 at 13:27
How did the concept of pH originate and develop?
Awarded Nov 24 at 21:27
Is there existing footage of Stanislaw Mazur giving Per Enflo a live goose for solving the approximation problem?
Awarded Nov 17 at 9:42
What was the motivation for the choice of the subset symbol?
Awarded Nov 15 at 12:56
Reference request: What were the problems of accepting zero, negative numbers, and complex numbers? And how were they solved?
Awarded Nov 5 at 21:07
Who evaluated the surface of the Torricelli solid/Gabriel's horn
Awarded Oct 28 at 22:46
Did Fibonacci not grasp the idea of zero?
Awarded Oct 26 at 21:55
$l^p$ space definition
Awarded Oct 22 at 3:42
Onsager on phase transitions
Awarded Oct 19 at 20:16
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Awarded Oct 12 at 20:30
Source of a Poincaré quote: "Logic sometimes makes monsters..."
Awarded Oct 11 at 1:26
Why energy rate did not replace power = Force times velocity?
Awarded Oct 7 at 15:38
Can I find the number e in the tables of Napier?
Awarded Oct 1 at 22:18
How sensitive was the frog galvanoscope?
Awarded Oct 1 at 10:12
History of right hand rule
Awarded Sep 27 at 12:57
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Awarded Sep 26 at 13:56
Is there a comprehensive list of Ancient Greek mathematical writings?
Awarded Sep 23 at 2:37
Who was the scientist who first showed that helium has a bound state, and was he a nazi?
Awarded Sep 14 at 23:26
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Awarded Sep 12 at 16:04
"Équation de Maxwell-Thomson"
Awarded Sep 12 at 7:18
Did the Romans really use the binomial formula to calculate products?
Awarded Sep 11 at 16:05
How to find the first appearance of a theorem?
Awarded Sep 11 at 8:17
Did the plum pudding model of the atom make any successful predictions?
Awarded Sep 6 at 21:07
How does Legendre transformation in classical mechanics relate to Adrien-Marie Legendre?
Awarded Sep 4 at 4:51
Who found the formula for sequential Stern-Gerlach experiments and when?
Awarded Aug 30 at 4:21
Did Cardano predict the date of his death then commit suicide on that date?
Awarded Aug 29 at 22:41
How was light polarization interpreted when first discovered?
Awarded Aug 25 at 8:42
Use of blackboard bold "ℝ" to refer to real numbers?
Awarded Aug 20 at 21:05
Can the so-called completeness of real numbers be understood as closure under limits in the real number system?
Awarded Aug 20 at 10:02
Did the Maclaurin series for sine and cosine unsettle Indian mathematicians?
Awarded Aug 15 at 17:17
Teiji Takagi's Fondation of Class Field Theory in Terms of Norms
Awarded Aug 10 at 14:36
The Original Title of "Euclid's Elements"
Awarded Aug 8 at 16:25
Did any mathematicians of the time (the 17th Century) try out an intermediary between Bernoulli's and Nieuwentijdt’s infinitesimals?
Awarded Aug 8 at 9:57
Who was the first person in history to calculate the limit $\lim\limits_{n\to\infty}\left(1+\dfrac{1}{n}\right)^n$?
Awarded Aug 8 at 3:46
Early illustrations of topological notions in published work
Awarded Aug 5 at 16:52
What is the origin of the "red, green, yellow" quark color convention?
Awarded Aug 4 at 2:46
Autistic Assistant of Gauss used to check Primality
Awarded Aug 1 at 2:32
How was crystallography studied before X-ray diffraction?
Awarded Jul 29 at 4:12
How did Fermat handle Frenicle's challenge to find a perfect number between $10^{20}$ and $10^{22}$?
Awarded Jul 26 at 20:57
Was Martin Packard of Varian Associates related to David Packard of Hewlett-Packard?
Awarded Jul 19 at 2:40
Why did Hilbert believe consistency implies existence?
Awarded Jul 18 at 8:51
What effect were used for manufacturing HDD before 1988?
Awarded Jul 17 at 14:04
Was the small Desargues Theorem known to ancient Greeks?
Awarded Jul 14 at 16:10
First use of ~ and ≍ (\sym and \asymp)
Awarded Jul 11 at 18:35
Are similarities in notation between Hamiltonian mechanics and Box-Jenkins time series forecasting accidental?
Awarded Jul 9 at 19:55
Where does the "operator to the right" notation originate?
Awarded Jul 6 at 2:01
Who was the first to write proofs in this manner?
Awarded Jun 21 at 17:05
Arrow heads on coordinate axes
Awarded Jun 18 at 14:57
When did derivative mean not only "slope of tangent" but also "instantaneous rate of change"?
Awarded Jun 12 at 22:27
How did Kelvin square his low estimate of the age of the sun with the geological evidence?
Awarded Jun 8 at 16:56
How and by whom was the magnetic term in the Hamiltonian first derived?
Awarded Jun 2 at 18:04
What are some examples of galactic algorithms that have become practical?
Awarded May 22 at 18:25
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