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History of Science and Mathematics

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Poisson's laws for adiabatic processes
Awarded Feb 20, 2023 at 17:31
Is it true that Albert Einstein was kicked out of high school due to his "peacefulness"?
Awarded Feb 19, 2023 at 1:48
How Galileo could both possibly say that Earth is revolving around the Sun and develop the Galilean relativity?
Awarded Feb 16, 2023 at 20:41
Early results on the Fourier transform
Awarded Feb 15, 2023 at 1:15
What is the title of the 1676 Memoir in which Leibniz first used the Chain Rule?
Awarded Feb 14, 2023 at 17:22
Was Niklas Luhmann critical of environmental movements?
Awarded Feb 13, 2023 at 21:18
Origin of the usage of $\lambda$ to represent eigenvalues
Awarded Feb 12, 2023 at 19:05
History of visualization in science and math - where may I read of it?
Awarded Feb 10, 2023 at 13:56
Understanding how Stern-Gerlach tests Bohr-Sommerfield Hypothesis
Awarded Feb 9, 2023 at 14:16
When did the error function get its modern definition?
Awarded Feb 7, 2023 at 21:07
Where can I find the early proofs for the simplicity of $\text{PSL}(n,q)$?
Awarded Jan 31, 2023 at 12:21
History of group actions as their own structures
Awarded Jan 31, 2023 at 7:08
Biographical info on Alan Earnshaw (Chemistry of the Elements)
Awarded Jan 30, 2023 at 23:47
When did people first know that the sky was illuminated by the Sun?
Awarded Jan 26, 2023 at 13:40
Katz's symbol 兄 for Gauss-Manin connections
Awarded Jan 18, 2023 at 4:37
When was the hydrogen's absolute mass found first in history?
Awarded Jan 14, 2023 at 13:42
Does Galilean/Newtonian mechanics reject both consequences of Aristotle's dynamical pseudo-law : $ V = F/m$, or only consequence (1)?
Awarded Jan 14, 2023 at 12:50
Finding the Letter from Freeman Dyson to Gerald Gabrielse in 2006
Awarded Jan 10, 2023 at 2:48
What was the chronologically first derivation PV=nRT?
Awarded Jan 7, 2023 at 20:07
In which article/book chapter did Cantor, Hilbert, and Poincaré formally define or directly discusse the term “potential infinity”?
Awarded Jan 5, 2023 at 23:42
Is there a transcript or audio recording of the lecture on Riemann Hypothesis by John Nash at Columbia University in 1959 anywhere?
Awarded Jan 3, 2023 at 11:26
How futuristic was the use of a laser in 1964's "Goldfinger"?
Awarded Jan 3, 2023 at 11:17
Scientific Collaborations during World War
Awarded Dec 30, 2022 at 13:26
What was known about Chebyshev polynomials in 1900?
Awarded Dec 28, 2022 at 5:32
Is there a resource which explains the history of how the Leidenfrost effect was explained?
Awarded Dec 22, 2022 at 21:25
Poincaré's definition of mathematics (?)
Awarded Dec 19, 2022 at 21:42
What's the history of "left as exercise" or notions similar to that?
Awarded Dec 19, 2022 at 19:20
Why does Eratosthenes method for calculating the circumference of the Earth requires the city of Alexandria and Syene to be in the same meridian?
Awarded Dec 19, 2022 at 14:41
Historical examples of frauds discovered because someone tried to mimic a uniform random sequence
Awarded Dec 18, 2022 at 18:56
How and when did scientists first determine that hydrogen was the lightest element?
Awarded Dec 16, 2022 at 5:27
Before metric length units were based on the speed of light, how were sub-units accurately derived from the reference bars?
Awarded Dec 16, 2022 at 2:48
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Awarded Dec 15, 2022 at 14:21
Euler's "comfortable" series
Awarded Dec 12, 2022 at 7:52
Original source of these 2 trigonometric identities
Awarded Dec 10, 2022 at 10:06
What was probability like before Kolmogorov?
Awarded Dec 8, 2022 at 8:17
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Awarded Dec 8, 2022 at 2:28
Why did Clairaut's theorem take so long to prove?
Awarded Dec 4, 2022 at 14:06
Naturally occurring elements in other planets and their natural satellites other than earth [closed]
Awarded Nov 28, 2022 at 19:42
Why is 'total angular momentum' denoted by the letter $J$ in quantum mechanics?
Awarded Nov 22, 2022 at 4:40
question regarding Stern-Gerlach experiment
Awarded Nov 19, 2022 at 15:16
Development of Logic: Intuitive use vs what took so long to formalize?
Awarded Nov 19, 2022 at 3:04
The symbol h for class numbers
Awarded Nov 16, 2022 at 10:26
Early helium spectrum measurements and their challenge for Bohr's quantum mechanics
Awarded Nov 13, 2022 at 17:40
What is the Expected Durability/Digitization Efforts of Pre-Hellenistic works that are made from Materials like Papyrus, Bamboo, Bark, Stone, e.t.c?
Awarded Nov 8, 2022 at 22:56
How did Euclid arrive at the law of reflection $r=i$?
Awarded Nov 7, 2022 at 13:21
Continuity, Hausdorff
Awarded Nov 6, 2022 at 10:55
Did Einstein believe the laws of physics would be replaced by mathematical identities?
Awarded Oct 25, 2022 at 23:09
What are the names of parents of Adrien-Marie Legendre, and their dates of birth and death?
Awarded Oct 24, 2022 at 13:49
What original mathematics arose from Jacquard loom and similar weaving devices?
Awarded Oct 16, 2022 at 6:18
Principia Mathematica and Law of Gravitation
Awarded Oct 16, 2022 at 3:06
Searching for book about non-Euclidean geometry that recapitulates the First Book of the Elements
Awarded Oct 15, 2022 at 23:32
Thales and measuring vertical angles
Awarded Oct 10, 2022 at 6:51
What was the Ptolemaic system used for?
Awarded Oct 9, 2022 at 1:56
What did Nathan Rosen (from EPR) say about Bell's inequality and its violation?
Awarded Oct 8, 2022 at 12:17
Why was Alain Aspect discouraged from doing his now Nobel-winning work?
Awarded Oct 7, 2022 at 19:57
What are the favorite interpretations of quantum mechanics by the recent Nobel laureates in physics?
Awarded Oct 6, 2022 at 0:10
Does "Metatron's cube" have a history and a serious name in geometry?
Awarded Sep 30, 2022 at 19:06
Why was Cauchy studying Schur polynomials and related topics?
Awarded Sep 25, 2022 at 2:25
What's the early history of the "inner quantum number"?
Awarded Sep 25, 2022 at 1:57
What is the origin of the name "degeneracy" pressure and "degenerate" Fermi gas?
Awarded Sep 23, 2022 at 16:08
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