History of Science and Mathematics

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Views of stellar energy before fusion
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Reference request: What were the problems of accepting zero, negative numbers, and complex numbers? And how were they solved?
Awarded Nov 11 at 18:15
Error-correcting codes based on Galois fields
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Motivation of Puiseux's Riemann surface and Galois group theory
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Unramified étale cohomology groups & unramified Milnor-Witt K-groups: any relation to notion of unramifiedness in number theory
Awarded Aug 23 at 20:17
Have there ever been any schemes for the classification of experiments?
Awarded Jun 22 at 19:45
Are there examples where interpretivist findings have been confirmed by (post-)positivist methodology?
Awarded Apr 30 at 22:27
Original description of point sources and point spread functions
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Who published the law of tangents first?
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How did they know that the space could expand?
Awarded Jun 23, 2022 at 10:35
In which paper did the typical textbook diagrams of the Millikan experiment appear the first time?
Awarded Jun 8, 2022 at 12:55
Marx economics theory
Awarded Apr 30, 2022 at 6:41
Looking for early, non-European accounts and theories of volcanism
Awarded Apr 13, 2022 at 15:20
Can not find reference for "uniform convexity implies existence of unique conjugate" mentioned by Pettis
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Help in locating a portrait of Göttingen's faculty in 1899
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Endorsers of the method of well-ordering reported by Hausdorff?
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Early parallel computing with human exchanging messages: is this story true?
Awarded Nov 5, 2021 at 17:12
Nicollet and the notions of systematic and random errors
Awarded Oct 24, 2021 at 10:41
Diffraction pattern of Michelson's echelon
Awarded Oct 21, 2021 at 18:04
When did contemporary practices for indicating ecliptic longitude supplant those containing zodiacal signs?
Awarded Aug 31, 2021 at 19:01
Analysis of Moscow Mathematical Papyrus problem no. 10
Awarded Aug 11, 2021 at 18:16
Earliest numeric value for helium D3 line
Awarded Jul 31, 2021 at 13:16
Names of the electromagnetic units in SI
Awarded Jan 31, 2021 at 23:27
Why did Jordan introduce his canonical form?
Awarded Jan 24, 2021 at 12:07
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Who first proved Fubini's theorem for abstract measure spaces?
Awarded Sep 21, 2020 at 22:16
Were ancient Romans so bad at computations before Arab numerals?
Awarded May 19, 2020 at 8:03
Plagiarism at the turn of 20th century
Awarded Jan 29, 2020 at 19:00
Indiana Pi Bill: Other attempts to establish mathematical truth by legislative fiat?
Awarded May 12, 2018 at 21:08
Who was the first to use the "does not exist" sign ∄?
Awarded Mar 31, 2018 at 4:12
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Awarded Feb 2, 2018 at 9:30
Who originally derived the general force law equation of force between current elements?
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First use of the term and principle of dynamic pressure — Daniel Bernoulli?
Awarded Jul 17, 2017 at 6:14
Study of embryos
Awarded Dec 4, 2016 at 17:24
Are there any memorial of Marcel Riesz in Lund?
Awarded Jul 4, 2016 at 18:11
What are some of the most complete genealogies of scientific and mathematical subject areas?
Awarded Jun 18, 2016 at 10:45
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Awarded May 11, 2016 at 13:17
When was the measurement problem solved?
Awarded Apr 11, 2016 at 20:27
How is Laugwitz's work on Cauchy viewed by historians?
Awarded Feb 18, 2016 at 17:22
Where did the divide and conquer method for radix conversion come from?
Awarded Jan 6, 2016 at 2:51
What was the typical format of a 16th century mathematical debate?
Awarded Aug 16, 2015 at 18:25
History of Coagulation of Milk by Short Waves
Awarded May 24, 2015 at 12:27
Who created the energy conditions?
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How did the 'Poincaré patches' get their name?
Awarded Dec 25, 2014 at 14:36
Why did George Cayley never crack the stability problem?
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