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Who is William Bigelow Easton?
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Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz were truly hostile towards each other (including subjects beyond differential and integral calculus)?
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What did Gell‐Mann dislike about Feynman’s book?
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Did Aristotle think weight was proportional to the square of the mass, rather than to mass? [closed]
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Why did Von Neumann use prices, a minmax principle and Brouwer's fixed point theorem in his 1937 paper on economic growth? [closed]
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Resources to understand problems posed to Newtonian mechanics by Maxwell equations
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Who enunciated each postulate of modern Quantum Mechanics?
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Does the earliest known use of an "average" occur after the invention of calculus?
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Does the earliest known use of an "average" occur after the invention of calculus?
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What was the content of Emmy Noether's 'two-line' note on Homology?
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Please recommend an article or book that explains Archimedes’ "The Method" in a detailed and objective manner
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Seeking Versluys' "Trigonometric" Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem (#95 in his 1914 book)
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Why was temperature difference not historically be considered a form of energy
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How did Vladimir Arnold explain the difference in approaches between mathematicians and physicists?
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Cause of slippery ice - pressure?
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Is the Scientific Method uniquely Western?
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Did Newton view mathematics only as a tool for natural philosophy?
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Historical examples of works that merged different fields of mathematics after analytic geometry
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Who thinks Grothendieck was the greatest?
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Seeking a text-based version of Paul Dirac's 1926 paper on quantum mechanics
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Seeking a text-based version of Paul Dirac's 1926 paper on quantum mechanics
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On the history of algae classification
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Can the mathematical statements in John Derbyshire's book Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics be trusted?
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Egyptian origin of Euclid's axiomatisation of geometry
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Who was this scientist who saw his whole theory(ies) demolished by a publication
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Why didn't C. Columbus use Ptolemy's measurements for Earth circumference (and other assumptions) [duplicate]
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How much was Boole influenced by Indian logic?
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Did Newton predict the deflection of light by gravity?
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Did Newton predict the deflection of light by gravity?
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What are some examples of elegant solutions?
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Was the concept of zero ever developed without relation to positional number systems?
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Egyptian origin of Euclid's axiomatisation of geometry
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Egyptian origin of Euclid's axiomatisation of geometry
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Was Martin Packard of Varian Associates related to David Packard of Hewlett-Packard?
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What was Pierre-Simon Laplace's reaction to Young's double slit experiment?
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Why are the categories of category theory called "category"?
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Why are the categories of category theory called "category"?
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Why did Aristotle make mistakes in his laws of motion?
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Books using the axiomatic method
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Who are some famous statisticians from the 20th and 21st centuries, who didn't have a formal training in statistics?
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Historically are there any documented attempts at finding algorithms that are asymptotically faster than the FFT for the Discrete Fourier Transform?
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How does the daguerrotype give directly a positive image?
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Were there any criticisms of his first FTA proof during Gauss's lifetime?
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Are there any well-known mathematicians who were marxists?
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What's the famous story about a mathematician who gave a talk without saying a word?
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Are there any well-known mathematicians who were marxists?
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Were there any criticisms of his first FTA proof during Gauss's lifetime?
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Why is the Mean Value Theorem (of holomorphic functions) called "Gauss's"?
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Why coin "Apophänie" for delusional revelations of a schizophrenic?
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When was the ‘mathematics department’ first established in universities?
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Was it after Riemann's death that Weierstrass gave a counterexample to Riemann's mapping theorem?
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Who is Rudolf Bach?
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