History of Science and Mathematics

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Who are the youngest mathematicians that published an original research article in a peer-reviewed journal?
Awarded Nov 30 at 16:21
Who were some mathematicians who have had a musical background?
Awarded Nov 29 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 at 15:11
What scientists and mathematicians were afraid to publish their findings?
Awarded Nov 13 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 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 at 16:46
What was Euler's first language?
Awarded Oct 5 at 20:16
What is the origin of French/Burmester's curves?
Awarded Sep 28 at 23:35
How did the early chemists determine the atomic weight of hydrogen?
Awarded Sep 24 at 5:26
Why is the azimuthal quantum number so named?
Awarded Sep 19 at 7:58
Why is Mendeleev credited with the discovery of the periodic table much more often than Meyer?
Awarded Sep 17 at 6:36
Historical examples of "pseudoscience" becoming "science"
Awarded Sep 7 at 1:09
Collection of open problems in Partial differential equations
Awarded Sep 6 at 16:06
Why didn't Einstein propose any metric solution to his equations?
Awarded Sep 4 at 5:26
What was the Big Bang model originally called?
Awarded Sep 3 at 19:56
Why is distance sometimes abbreviated S?
Awarded Sep 3 at 10:20
Why do some people represent vectors with overbars while others use underlines?
Awarded Aug 19 at 8:20
What is the reasoning behind using "moment" in the "moment of inertia"?
Awarded Aug 18 at 2:01
Which came first, Coulomb's law or Gauss's law?
Awarded Aug 17 at 3:46
Who was the first to say "Shut up and calculate!"?
Awarded Aug 14 at 14:47
Autistic Assistant of Gauss used to check Primality
Awarded Aug 3 at 5:04
When/Why did Septagon change to Heptagon?
Awarded Aug 2 at 21:16
Historically, how did people define multiplication for negative numbers?
Awarded Jul 30 at 11:55
When and why did powers come to be called 'exponents'?
Awarded Jul 23 at 20:46
Why did Hilbert believe consistency implies existence?
Awarded Jul 20 at 9:17
How was the composition and structure of water determined?
Awarded Jul 13 at 5:40
Are there any extant letters backing up the famous anecdote about Edmund Landau and Fermat's Last Theorem?
Awarded Jun 21 at 23:45
How did the shift from constructed mathematical objects to modern mathematics occur?
Awarded Jun 17 at 18:26
What is the origin of the Chinese Stick Multiplication method?
Awarded Jun 5 at 13:36
Who discovered this closed form formula for the n-th prime number?
Awarded May 28 at 1:12
How did the notion of rigour in Euclid’s time differ from that in the 1920 revolution of Math?
Awarded May 20 at 18:08
Who really invented the integration symbol?
Awarded May 18 at 23:10
History of the inverse matrix
Awarded May 13 at 22:37
Madhava and $\pi$
Awarded May 8 at 15:57
Why is kinetic energy denoted by the letter $T$ in quantum mechanics?
Awarded May 7 at 0:56
When and why did the concept of relativistic mass become outdated?
Awarded Apr 28 at 13:40
Why do I , J and K in mechanics represent X , Y and Z in maths?
Awarded Apr 24 at 20:10
Mathematicians who wrote fiction
Awarded Apr 20 at 10:25
To what extent were the scientists involved in the Manhattan project aware of the goals?
Awarded Apr 17 at 14:07
Who invented the gradient?
Awarded Apr 6 at 9:47
Translations of Luca Pacioli's Summa de arithmetica
Awarded Mar 30 at 10:50
Did Feynman win the Putnam by a "large margin"?
Awarded Mar 29 at 12:20
What are the most precise measurements in science?
Awarded Mar 27 at 13:16
How did Ptolemy know that days were unequal lengths?
Awarded Mar 26 at 18:56
What is the origin of the rubber sheet analogy?
Awarded Mar 22 at 2:45
Was the steam engine really known in ancient Egypt?
Awarded Mar 16 at 19:16
Euler: “A baby on his lap, a cat on his back — that’s how he wrote his immortal works” (origin?)
Awarded Mar 6 at 19:28
Is it true that Albert Einstein was kicked out of high school due to his "peacefulness"?
Awarded Feb 20 at 11:20
What hair color did Évariste Galois have?
Awarded Feb 17 at 4:07
What was the notion of limit that Newton used?
Awarded Jan 14 at 12:35
What type of abrasive grit was used to grind lenses for telescopes?
Awarded Jan 12 at 22:26
Who introduced the "dagger"symbol as conjugate transpose in quantum mechanics?
Awarded Jan 4 at 9:40
How did group theory enter quantum mechanics?
Awarded Jan 1 at 16:16
Where did the contour integral sign appear for the first time?
Awarded Jan 1 at 10:33
How did "royal we" become a standard of scientific writing?
Awarded Dec 24, 2022 at 4:32
What is the source of Einstein's quote "spooky action at a distance"? [duplicate]
Awarded Dec 18, 2022 at 9:50
History of measure theory
Awarded Dec 15, 2022 at 1:25
Electromagnetics and vector calculus
Awarded Dec 13, 2022 at 4:06
Did Indian astronomers realize the sphericity of the earth independently of the Greeks?
Awarded Dec 9, 2022 at 1:35
How did Newton prove the generalised binomial theorem?
Awarded Dec 7, 2022 at 17:02
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