History of Science and Mathematics

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Does Blum's speedup theorem have any conceptual predecessors?
Awarded Oct 5 at 4:36
How could the people of the past be sure that $a \times b = b \times a$?
Awarded Aug 3 at 5:04
Is the Scientific Method uniquely Western?
Awarded Jun 23 at 4:50
Who were the attendees to the SGA3 seminar?
Awarded Apr 8 at 4:32
Why did "cold fusion" come to mean Fleischmann-Pons fusion instead of μCF?
Awarded Mar 1 at 4:07
What is the history behind the concept of "schemes" in algebraic geometry?
Awarded Jan 23 at 5:15
Where are the mirrors of historic telescopes today?
Awarded Jan 18 at 4:15
Historical examples of "pseudoscience" becoming "science"
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Who was the first to say "Shut up and calculate!"?
Awarded Jan 7 at 4:09
In which article/book chapter did Cantor, Hilbert, and Poincaré formally define or directly discusse the term “potential infinity”?
Awarded Jan 7 at 4:09
Hydrogen electrode and its electrode potential
Awarded Dec 30, 2022 at 4:40
What is so mysterious about Archimedes' approximation of $\sqrt 3$?
Awarded Nov 30, 2022 at 4:55
How did Roger Cotes come up with logarithm form of Euler formula?
Awarded Nov 18, 2022 at 8:20
Did any famous physicists think nuclear weapons were impossible?
Awarded Nov 15, 2022 at 4:10
What attracted Einstein to the anomalous precession of Mercury?
Awarded Nov 12, 2022 at 5:26
What attracted Einstein to the anomalous precession of Mercury?
Awarded Nov 2, 2022 at 4:42
What was the "libration of Pallas" that Gauss studied, when Pallas is not a moon of Jupiter?
Awarded Sep 29, 2022 at 4:35
What was the real need of divergence and curl operators?
Awarded Aug 31, 2022 at 5:46
Questions regarding "Two New Sciences" by Galileo Galilei
Awarded Jun 25, 2022 at 4:41
Why is Sophie-Germain's Identity popular?
Awarded Apr 23, 2022 at 4:15
Original Statement and Proof of Chebyshev’s $\vartheta(x) \sim x$
Awarded Apr 3, 2022 at 4:11
What was the historical context of the development of Taylor series?
Awarded Mar 17, 2022 at 4:26
What did Einstein contribute to Special Relativity that hadn't already been done by Lorentz in 1904 and Poincaré in 1905?
Awarded Mar 11, 2022 at 21:11
What was the connection between David Hilbert and Stefan Banach?
Awarded Mar 6, 2022 at 4:17
Was there a period of doubt in the history of the Higgs mechanism?
Awarded Feb 15, 2022 at 4:10
Why did algebraic geometry need Alexander Grothendieck?
Awarded Jan 22, 2022 at 6:06
Who discovered smooth non-analytic functions of a real variable?
Awarded Dec 24, 2021 at 4:56
Name of Polaris before it became a pole star?
Awarded Dec 18, 2021 at 4:02
$\epsilon$-$\delta$ definition of continuity
Awarded Dec 13, 2021 at 8:20
How did mathematicians notate the empty set before $\varnothing$?
Awarded Sep 28, 2021 at 4:36
Was fake/rigged data common prior to the 20th century?
Awarded Sep 1, 2021 at 7:51
Sine of 0.72 and pi [closed]
Awarded Aug 27, 2021 at 5:01
How did Eratosthenes know the distance between Aswan and Alexandria?
Awarded Jul 23, 2021 at 5:46
What is the historical reasoning for electron orbital names?
Awarded Jul 7, 2021 at 4:06
How much did scholasticism contribute to logic and mathematics?
Awarded May 13, 2021 at 5:41
What was the appeal of numerical analysis before computers?
Awarded Mar 12, 2021 at 4:10
What led to the fall of Göttingen?
Awarded Mar 10, 2021 at 4:26
What was Euler's motivation for introducing $i$ for $\sqrt{-1}$?
Awarded Feb 15, 2021 at 5:07
Books on elliptic functions
Awarded Jan 11, 2021 at 5:12
Diagrams in early Mathematical Paper Publication
Awarded Jan 6, 2021 at 4:03
How much had the rise of drones been connected with the study of birds?
Awarded Jan 5, 2021 at 4:18
Did Abraham De Moivre really predict his own death?
Awarded Dec 8, 2020 at 4:25
What was the motivation for Minkowski spacetime before special relativity?
Awarded Dec 6, 2020 at 5:30
Why is magnetic flux density named after Nikola Tesla?
Awarded Nov 22, 2020 at 4:46
Who first proved Fubini's theorem for abstract measure spaces?
Awarded Oct 5, 2020 at 5:19
How did Romans do multiplications?
Awarded Sep 27, 2020 at 5:50
Why are étale morphisms called "étale"?
Awarded Aug 24, 2020 at 4:11
What was the connection between David Hilbert and Stefan Banach?
Awarded Jul 12, 2020 at 5:56
What actually led Feynman to the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics?
Awarded Jun 7, 2020 at 6:06
Why were British WWII computing machines and their projects destroyed after the war ended?
Awarded May 12, 2020 at 4:05
Why did Tesla disagree with Einstein?
Awarded Mar 24, 2020 at 4:15
How did Ptolemy calculate the distance to the Moon?
Awarded Mar 24, 2020 at 4:15
When exactly (and why) did matrices become a part of the undergraduate curriculum?
Awarded Mar 24, 2020 at 4:15
Did Maxwell originally write his equations using quaternions?
Awarded Feb 23, 2020 at 4:15
Why is the natural logarithm represented by $\ln$?
Awarded Feb 11, 2020 at 4:15
Examples of when the professional scientists or mathematicians were wrong, but the nonprofessionals were right
Awarded Feb 9, 2020 at 4:20
Why is kinetic energy denoted by the letter $T$ in quantum mechanics?
Awarded Feb 8, 2020 at 4:20
Is the symbol for set membership $\in$ derived from greek letter $\epsilon$?
Awarded Jan 17, 2020 at 5:30
Instances of suppression of scientific ideas
Awarded Nov 21, 2019 at 4:10
Who discovered the power rule for derivatives?
Awarded Sep 13, 2019 at 4:30
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