History of Science and Mathematics

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What was the role of Schmidt in derivation of the Gram-Schmidt process?
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How do we explain the lack of activity in the study of Latin mathematics?
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Did Caroline Herschel know about the discovery of Neptune?
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An English copy of One Hundred Authors Against Einstein?
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What is the shortest paper in the history of mathematics?
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Who are the youngest mathematicians that published an original research article in a peer-reviewed journal?
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Did Cardano predict the date of his death then commit suicide on that date?
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Why don't we learn Buridan's laws of motion?
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What was the motivation for the choice of the subset symbol?
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What is the mysterious expression mentioned by Hadamard that Riemann derived properties of zeta function from?
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What scientists and mathematicians were afraid to publish their findings?
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What scientists and mathematicians were afraid to publish their findings?
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Did Newton know about non-inertial frames?
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Did Newton say: "If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent"?
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Origins and history of branched covering
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Examples of when the professional scientists or mathematicians were wrong, but the nonprofessionals were right
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Who pitched in the theory of Hollow Earth?
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When was the first time/s that sheaves entered algebra and algebraic geometry?
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Etymology of "power" (math.)
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Who was the first to say "Shut up and calculate!"?
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Source of a Poincaré quote: "Logic sometimes makes monsters..."
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Who coined the term "signal-to-noise ratio" and when did statisticians start using the term "noise" to describe randomness?
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What is the history of moment generating functions, and the more general characteristic functions?
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Historical examples of "pseudoscience" becoming "science"
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Who was the first woman to complete the physics and mathematics program in Zürich?
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How does Legendre transformation in classical mechanics relate to Adrien-Marie Legendre?
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is the shape of the Greek letter pi inspired in the Lion's Gate at Mycenae?
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What was the real need of divergence and curl operators?
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Is Kline right that Cauchy believed that continuous functions must be differentiable?
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The Original Title of "Euclid's Elements"
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Did Maxwell originally write his equations using quaternions?
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Autistic Assistant of Gauss used to check Primality
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Was Paul Cohen a student or assistant of Gödel?
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Why did Hilbert believe consistency implies existence?
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When was it discovered that the Earth wasn't round?
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Did Renaissance mathematicians once consider themselves inferior to the great ancient mathematicians?
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Examples of papers co-authored by parent/child, or siblings
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What algebra problem did Serge Lang give to calculus students?
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Invalid mathematical proof that was considered valid for the longest period of time?
Awarded Jun 11 at 15:09
What is so mysterious about Archimedes' approximation of $\sqrt 3$?
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What is so mysterious about Archimedes' approximation of $\sqrt 3$?
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How did the shift from constructed mathematical objects to modern mathematics occur?
Awarded Jun 9 at 2:08
What are the references for Riemann's discussion of gravity?
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Have all of Euler's works been translated?
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Could ancient astronomers have proven heliocentrism?
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What is the earliest mention of doubling grains on a chessboard story?
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Can we estimate the first appearance of popular science books?
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Can we estimate the first appearance of popular science books?
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What was so hard about discovering/inventing the number zero?
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Historical origin of commas and periods in numbers
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Why did Columbus think the Earth was much smaller than it is?
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What did the study plan of a early 20th century mathematics undergraduate program look like?
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Why is differentiation under the integral sign named the Leibniz rule?
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What is the story behind various uses of the word "spectrum"?
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What are the most precise measurements in science?
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Is there any evidence De Morgan abandoned probability theory due to it being "too tricky/non-intuitive/difficult"?
Awarded Apr 22 at 12:02
Heisenberg's Obituary to Pauli
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Why are there so few Iberian mathematicians in history?
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Mathematicians who wrote fiction
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Mathematicians who wrote fiction
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