History of Science and Mathematics

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What is the opinion of famous mathematicians about academic research compared to mathematical competitions and olympiads? [closed]
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Did Caroline Herschel know about the discovery of Neptune?
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How did the concept of pH originate and develop?
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How did Eratosthenes determine that Alexandria and Syene were on the same meridian?
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Is there existing footage of Stanislaw Mazur giving Per Enflo a live goose for solving the approximation problem?
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How did someone discover LCM?
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In JJ Thomson's cathode ray experiment I need values for the electric field and magnetic field when net force on the cathode beam = 0
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Did Einstein really explain Relativity using the hot stove/pretty girl analogy and if so why?
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Book on the evolution of Quantum Theory
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Reference request: What were the problems of accepting zero, negative numbers, and complex numbers? And how were they solved?
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A summary of Major events in Pre-Modern Atomist Philosophy of Chemistry
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Where does the term elasticity (of a function) come from?
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Who evaluated the surface of the Torricelli solid/Gabriel's horn
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Onsager on phase transitions
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Error-correcting codes based on Galois fields
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Why energy rate did not replace power = Force times velocity?
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Can I find the number e in the tables of Napier?
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What's the difference between Galileo's "impeto" and "momento"?
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Is there a comprehensive list of Ancient Greek mathematical writings?
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Who invented bit permutations like shuffle, butterfly and bit-reversal?
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Did Euler know Ancient Greek?
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Who was the scientist who first showed that helium has a bound state, and was he a nazi?
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Why is Robinson arithmetic "Q"?
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Kepler's Mysterium Cosmographicum with regular polygons: in which nesting order?
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Was René Descartes an arrogant man?
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Can the so-called completeness of real numbers be understood as closure under limits in the real number system?
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Early illustrations of topological notions in published work
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Teiji Takagi's Fondation of Class Field Theory in Terms of Norms
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The Original Title of "Euclid's Elements"
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When did the notion of and term "weight" arise in geometry?
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Did Skolem have any siblings?
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Are similarities in notation between Hamiltonian mechanics and Box-Jenkins time series forecasting accidental?
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Where does the "operator to the right" notation originate?
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Early sources for surface and bound charges in polarization
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Motivation of Monge-Ampere equation
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Is the Scientific Method uniquely Western?
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What is the iodine fax process mentioned in Vannevar Bush's "As we may think"?
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How was the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus discovered?
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Why is the claim that $\pi$ contains all natural numbers thought by the general public to be proven, despite it being conjecture currently?
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Improvement to the classification and labeling in a list of mathematical references
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What are some examples of galactic algorithms that have become practical?
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Can we estimate the first appearance of popular science books?
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Was there a view of a figure as a set of points before set theory?
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Popper on Marx, Freud and Darwin
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Are there examples where interpretivist findings have been confirmed by (post-)positivist methodology?
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What did the study plan of a early 20th century mathematics undergraduate program look like?
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What is the earliest paper in which graph vertex connectivity is denoted by the Greek letter $\kappa$?
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Mathematicians who wrote fiction
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Mathematicians who wrote fiction
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What is the etymology of the term space-time?
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What is the etymology of the term space-time?
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A result on convergence of series of positive terms
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What are the most precise measurements in science?
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How did Isaac Newton write the integral symbol?
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