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What set of criteria led Hamilton to discover the quaternions?
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Origin of the word "de" in the name of Danish astronomer Tycho de Brahe
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Literary works authored by mathematicians
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Origin of the word "de" in the name of Danish astronomer Tycho de Brahe
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Where can I find Grothendieck's letter of resignation from Bourbaki?
Awarded Oct 21, 2021 at 13:03
What led to the formula $W=\vec{F} \cdot \overrightarrow{d s}$? [closed]
Awarded Oct 17, 2021 at 13:55
Why was André Weil in Finland?
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The Rejection of Solid Orbs by Geo-Heliocentric (Tychonic) model of the solar system
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Historicity of Euclid. Looking for the references of Euclid in ancient texts that has survived [duplicate]
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How did Kepler's teacher Mästlin calculate the Golden section?
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Books on history of biochemistry
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Which physicists died very young or in a tragic way?
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How did Aristotle die? [closed]
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How did Stern or Gerlach, of Stern-Gerlach experiment, create individual silver atoms? How were they accelerated?
Awarded Aug 31, 2021 at 18:17
How did Stern or Gerlach, of Stern-Gerlach experiment, create individual silver atoms? How were they accelerated?
Awarded Aug 31, 2021 at 13:57
How did Stern or Gerlach, of Stern-Gerlach experiment, create individual silver atoms? How were they accelerated?
Awarded Aug 31, 2021 at 12:26
Where can I find the historical information or the stats related to Winning WW2 with the minimum actions using The Bombe Machine of Alan Turing?
Awarded Aug 31, 2021 at 11:16
When did contemporary practices for indicating ecliptic longitude supplant those containing zodiacal signs?
Awarded Aug 30, 2021 at 21:55
What are some early examples of large international scientific collaborations?
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How did people make things perfectly straight?
Awarded Aug 19, 2021 at 21:43
Has physics ever given a physical significance to a mathematically abstract idea?
Awarded Aug 17, 2021 at 12:37
In Newton's cannon image, where do the shapes drawn into the sphere come from?
Awarded Aug 14, 2021 at 6:57
Analysis of Moscow Mathematical Papyrus problem no. 10
Awarded Aug 13, 2021 at 11:49
von Neumann vignette on early computer usage
Awarded Aug 10, 2021 at 2:08
Original proof of the Schwarz lemma
Awarded Aug 8, 2021 at 0:08
In Newton's cannon image, where do the shapes drawn into the sphere come from?
Awarded Aug 7, 2021 at 7:42
What hair color did Évariste Galois have?
Awarded Aug 5, 2021 at 18:01
Are there any sources of mathematicians talking about their research methods?
Awarded Aug 4, 2021 at 8:28
Has there been an equivalent in physics to Ramanujan in maths?
Awarded Aug 3, 2021 at 22:41
Has there been an equivalent in physics to Ramanujan in maths?
Awarded Aug 3, 2021 at 8:06
Has there been an equivalent in physics to Ramanujan in maths?
Awarded Aug 2, 2021 at 20:31
Was Einstein's "Maschinchen" a predecessor of the photomultiplier tube?
Awarded Aug 1, 2021 at 14:17
Confusion on the original article by Lucas
Awarded Jul 27, 2021 at 10:13
Why are there so many German terms in the field of radiative transfer?
Awarded Jul 26, 2021 at 7:11
What are examples of serendipity in the history of the sciences and math?
Awarded Jul 20, 2021 at 20:15
What are examples of serendipity in the history of the sciences and math?
Awarded Jul 20, 2021 at 2:51
What does the Fourier transform have to do with heat?
Awarded Jul 15, 2021 at 19:06
Are there theorems that have been truly lost?
Awarded Jul 14, 2021 at 13:27
Continuation on Galois’ lost memoir(s): was Poisson right in his review of Galois’ memoir?
Awarded Jul 14, 2021 at 9:10
Who discovered this closed form formula for the n-th prime number?
Awarded Jul 11, 2021 at 14:06
When did the notion of space, geometric space appear?
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Who first started parameterizing hyperbolas with hyperbolic functions?
Awarded Jun 25, 2021 at 15:51
When was the concept of “Power” defined?
Awarded Jun 24, 2021 at 16:20
Why did it take so long to discover the shape of the Milky Way?
Awarded Jun 23, 2021 at 17:48
How did Meyer know atomic volumes to plot them just before Mendeleev's periodic table?
Awarded Jun 12, 2021 at 15:07
References to Scientists in Art and Poetry
Awarded Jun 11, 2021 at 20:06
Has physics ever given a physical significance to a mathematically abstract idea?
Awarded Jun 10, 2021 at 16:50
Has physics ever given a physical significance to a mathematically abstract idea?
Awarded Jun 8, 2021 at 17:51
Abel's "solution" of the quintic
Awarded Jun 5, 2021 at 22:18
Did ancient Greek mathematicians consider numbers independently of geometry?
Awarded May 30, 2021 at 21:02
Who proved Banach fixed point theorem in abstract metric spaces for the first time?
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Reverse subtraction: has any culture had a symbol (call it $\oplus$) where $A \oplus B$ (read in the same direction as in the language) $:= B - A$?
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