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How did Jahnke and Emde create their plots
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Who was N.M. Stephens who refuted the Stronger Feit-Thompson Conjecture?
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What is the "family tree" of translations of Euclid's Elements?
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Chronology of proofs of cubic and biquadratic reciprocity laws
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What did Gell‐Mann dislike about Feynman’s book?
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Does the earliest known use of an "average" occur after the invention of calculus?
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What were other physicists' opinions on David Bohm's book "Quantum Theory"
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When was the measurement problem solved?
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Did amateurs ever produce important proofs or similar?
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Where did the popular idea of spacetime come from?
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Cases where a misunderstanding in mathematics led to misunderstanding of the physics?
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Why did Columbus think the Earth was much smaller than it is?
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Liber Abaci 1202: where is original manuscript scanned?
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Did Gauss really call Archimedes an idiot? [closed]
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Why are "join" and "meet" named as they are?
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Old unsolved questions in mathematics
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Did Sophie Germain find a flaw in Euler's equations for elastic vibrations?
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What is the reasoning behind using "moment" in the "moment of inertia"?
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Origin of $\ll$ notation
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Quantitative measures of rise and decline of scientific fields over time (beyond number of publications)
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Are there well-known mathematicians who shared Arnold's view about mathematics as natural science?
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Did Einstein really say: "If I were wrong, it would only take one."
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Historical development of power series
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History of the definition of Injective & Surjective Function
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In Lord Rosse's 1845 drawing of M51, was the galaxy depicted in white or black?
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How was difference in water pressure perceived in ancient cultures or the middle ages?
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Discovery of Sine and Cosine
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Landau doubting conservation of energy---and what followed
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What actually led Feynman to the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics?
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Who was (were) the first mathematician(s) who did not doubt the empty set?
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Why are the categories of category theory called "category"?
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In which units did Sir Isaac Newton define force at that time as SI system didn't exist then?
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Folk stories and notions in mathematics that are likely false, inaccurate, apocryphal, or poorly founded?
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Who first considered signed area?
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Did Ulam discover category theory?
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Are there any well-known mathematicians who were marxists?
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How did Eratosthenes knew the exact time of the day?
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Who is Donald L. Webb
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I want to know the tricks to search for and find old academic journals for free
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How did Eratosthenes know the distance between Aswan and Alexandria?
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How far did Nazi Germany get in researching the "sun gun?"
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Who was Nicolò Paganini that discovered the amicable pair 1184, 1210?
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Did Maxwell originally write his equations using quaternions?
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Why do South Asians often use "lakhs" and "crores" instead of "millions"? What is the historical origin of this system?
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What is the origin of "two straight lines cannot enclose a space" axiom in Euclid's Elements?
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History of greater-than symbol used in reverse?
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Emmy Noether's announcement in 1932 ICM
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Great battles in the history of mathematics
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Did Alan Turing know the German language?
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Did Ronald Fisher ever say anything on varying the threshold of significance level?
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Interpretation of $W$ in Boltzmann's entropy formula
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Works of scientists, philosophers and mathematicians that (re)surfaced after a long time
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Robert Hooke and the Inverse Square Law
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When did the word "Real number" begin to be used as an official terminology to refer to both rational and irrational numbers?
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Arithmetic calculation before the 17th Century
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Who did first use the Method of Characteristics?
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Did wave optics anticipate quantum mechanics?
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Ramanujan's Method for solving cubic, quartic, quintic
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How far did the Great Terror reach into Soviet mathematics?
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The origin of logic gate symbols
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