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History of Science and Mathematics

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What problem led to the discovery of Calculus?
Awarded Aug 26 at 4:18
Origin of Q for the set of rational numbers?
Awarded Aug 18 at 12:56
Did Newton predict the deflection of light by gravity?
Awarded Aug 16 at 12:10
What attracted Einstein to the anomalous precession of Mercury?
Awarded Aug 15 at 14:42
Is there any good book about the history of electricity?
Awarded Aug 13 at 14:06
Contribution of non-western mathematics to modern mathematics
Awarded Aug 4 at 19:46
Is Kline right that Cauchy believed that continuous functions must be differentiable?
Awarded Jul 18 at 4:28
What is the origin of the term "Ordinary Differential Equation"?
Awarded Jul 13 at 19:10
What made Newton realize that the law of gravitation was 'universal'? [duplicate]
Awarded Jul 11 at 19:07
What is the history behind the concept of "schemes" in algebraic geometry?
Awarded Jul 8 at 5:35
When and how was ionizing radiation found to be harmful?
Awarded Jul 7 at 8:15
Folk stories and notions in mathematics that are likely false, inaccurate, apocryphal, or poorly founded?
Awarded Jul 6 at 16:22
Who determined the temperature of the Sun first?
Awarded Jul 4 at 11:06
What is the origin of "banana brackets"?
Awarded Jun 27 at 20:05
Are there any well-known mathematicians who were marxists?
Awarded Jun 17 at 19:26
What did the ancient Greeks know about the solar system, and how?
Awarded Jun 3 at 18:11
What is Ptolemy holding in this picture?
Awarded May 27 at 16:53
I want to know the tricks to search for and find old academic journals for free
Awarded May 24 at 7:57
Why did Columbus think the Earth was much smaller than it is?
Awarded May 22 at 14:51
History of Plato's formula for generating pythagorean triples
Awarded May 15 at 16:17
How did Newton measure forces in his experiments to establish the laws of motion?
Awarded May 13 at 0:55
How did Young perform his double slit experiment?
Awarded May 1 at 19:20
Who first considered the $f$ in $f(x)$ as an object in itself, and who decided to call it a function?
Awarded Apr 26 at 9:35
Why isn't Feynman's path integral taught more widely and earlier in today's academic physics curricula?
Awarded Apr 22 at 15:11
Why is one meter as long as it is?
Awarded Mar 31 at 12:16
Does "Metatron's cube" have a history and a serious name in geometry?
Awarded Mar 27 at 13:04
\mathbb versus \mathbf
Awarded Mar 20 at 16:11
Looking for books on the history of chemistry?
Awarded Mar 12 at 0:47
Have all of Euler's works been translated?
Awarded Mar 11 at 10:42
When did humans realize that sex leads to pregnancy?
Awarded Mar 9 at 20:50
Why is the letter $\vec{r}$ used for position?
Awarded Mar 9 at 17:56
How did Ptolemy calculate the distance to the Moon?
Awarded Mar 5 at 19:56
Great battles in the history of mathematics
Awarded Mar 5 at 17:33
What's that on Euler's head? Does the head covering shown in Emanuel Handmann 1753 painting signify scholarship?
Awarded Mar 1 at 10:36
How do we explain the lack of activity in the study of Latin mathematics?
Awarded Feb 28 at 14:04
Why was the Tertiary period dropped but the Quaternary retained?
Awarded Feb 28 at 0:36
Did Alan Turing know the German language?
Awarded Feb 27 at 16:24
What is the most ancient civilization that used base-16 (hexadecimal) number system?
Awarded Feb 27 at 14:28
How did von Neumann come up with his merge sort algorithm?
Awarded Feb 25 at 13:11
Works of scientists, philosophers and mathematicians that (re)surfaced after a long time
Awarded Feb 20 at 22:52
What new mathematics was inspired by biology and chemistry?
Awarded Feb 17 at 3:32
Who gave mathematical expression for torque?
Awarded Feb 16 at 21:08
origin of the terms "domain" and "range"?
Awarded Feb 11 at 14:46
How was the sum of squares formula discovered by Archimedes?
Awarded Feb 3 at 3:21
What paragraph was written by Emanouil Atanassov to solve problem 6 on the International Mathematical Olympiad in 1988?
Awarded Jan 28 at 10:27
How did Aristotle influence Euclid?
Awarded Jan 25 at 15:03
Why was the development of mathematics very slow between Ancient Greece and Descartes?
Awarded Jan 16 at 17:56
Who first solved the classical harmonic oscillator?
Awarded Jan 6 at 8:47
What is the history of moment generating functions, and the more general characteristic functions?
Awarded Jan 6 at 6:45
"Cycles" to "Hertz": Why the shift circa 1970?
Awarded Dec 30, 2023 at 5:01
Napoleon I and Fulton: Steamship rejection story real?
Awarded Dec 19, 2023 at 14:08
Did the Soviet Union have their own discoveries in the development of semiconductors and the semiconductor industry?
Awarded Dec 12, 2023 at 18:17
Who are the youngest mathematicians that published an original research article in a peer-reviewed journal?
Awarded Nov 30, 2023 at 16:21
Who were some mathematicians who have had a musical background?
Awarded Nov 29, 2023 at 20:07
Why do South Asians often use "lakhs" and "crores" instead of "millions"? What is the historical origin of this system?
Awarded Nov 24, 2023 at 15:11
What scientists and mathematicians were afraid to publish their findings?
Awarded Nov 13, 2023 at 19:48
Did Newton say: "If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent"?
Awarded Nov 10, 2023 at 4:12
Who coined the term "signal-to-noise ratio" and when did statisticians start using the term "noise" to describe randomness?
Awarded Oct 10, 2023 at 16:46
What was Euler's first language?
Awarded Oct 5, 2023 at 20:16
What is the origin of French/Burmester's curves?
Awarded Sep 28, 2023 at 23:35
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