History of Science and Mathematics

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How were the works of axiomatization of probability progressed prior Kolmogorov?
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Who were the attendees to the SGA3 seminar?
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When did we first know the $11$ ways of opening up a cube?
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Length of the year in Aztec/Maya calendar
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When did physicists begin using the symbol $G$ for Newton's gravitational constant?
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Non-Euclidean geometry: motivations to develop it at the times of Gauss?
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What is the origin of the negation ( ¬ ) operator from logic?
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What is the origin of the negation ( ¬ ) operator from logic?
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Is there history of all the blind alleys Einstein followed between 1905 and 1915 in formulating General Relativity?
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I'm wondering how the Egyptians figured out the false position method in solving their equations?
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Einstein's contribution to Mathematics?
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Who was Richard Thompson?
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Why is $T_{\mu\nu}$ the Standard Notation for the Stress-Energy-Momentum Tensor
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Is Edmund Whittaker claim that Hilbert proved General Relativity days before Einstein valid?
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Questions regarding "Two New Sciences" by Galileo Galilei
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What does this 1200 AD eye diagram say?
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What effect were used for manufacturing HDD before 1988?
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Number theory: a quote
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Deflection of the pendulum arm in Cavendish experiment
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Request: Readers to Check Accuracy of the History in my Young Adult Math Story
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Newton's Corollary #1 to the Laws of Motion (Principia)
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When did the concepts colloquially referred to as "the past" and "the future" first appear?
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Did Maxwell discuss charge quantization?
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What was the last important scientific work written in Latin?
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Claims that fully formal proofs are impossible to write down
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Yuktibhāṣā, 16th century, first modern proof of $\frac{\pi}4=\int_0^1 \frac{dt}{1+t^2}=\sum_{n\ge 0} \frac{(-1)^n}{2n+1}$
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Source of a Quote by M. Stone on Poincaré and Bourbaki
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The abstraction of mathematics from physics
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When did we have first calculations of moon phases?
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What does this cover of a 1508 German book on arithmetic depict?
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Context behind Planck's "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents...but rather because its opponents eventually die..."?
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Bardeen's missing talk
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Origin of a problem with three dice
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Adrastus, Proclus, and 2+8+50+288+… versus 1+9+49+289+…
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Has a stereotypical "mad scientist" ever made a significant discovery?
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Did Kepler arrive at his planetary laws based on Mars's orbit alone?
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Did the logarithm function, with a continuous domain, come before the exponential function?
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Why is the ring of algebraic integers denoted by $\mathcal O_K$?
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What did Helmholtz mean about crumpling a hemisphere?
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Are there any mathematical objects that got renamed over time?
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What was the historical context of the development of Taylor series?
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Are there any mathematical objects that got renamed over time?
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Are there any mathematical objects that got renamed over time?
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Are there any mathematical objects that got renamed over time?
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History of Green's function
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Grothendieck and Fields medal 1962
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Physical theories and Mathematics [closed]
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where does trace $\sigma$-algebra come from
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What is the shortest paper in the history of mathematics?
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Women in mathematics
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Relation between Bourbaki group and Vienna Circle
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Was there a period of doubt in the history of the Higgs mechanism?
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Element classification by Döbereiner and Newland (law of octaves)
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