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Are there any accounts of Charles Peirce's character,cognition and physical appearance?
I am interested in any historical account of the following attributes of Peirce:character,cognition and appearance.
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Was Giuseppe Peano one of the greatest mathematicians of his era? [closed]
Does the rest of his work compare favourably to the totality of the works of the other great mathematicians of the same era? … It seems to me that whether this can be answered objectively enough or not may be determined by his "significance distance" from the great mathematicians of that era. …
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Was Lagrange aware of Hamiltonian mechanics?
In the book "The Road to Reality", Penrose claims that Joseph Lagrange was aware of Hamiltonian mechanics. Is there any evidence that this statement is true?
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What was Lagrange's contribution to the Knights Tour Problem?
Did Lagrange make any noteworthy contribution to the Knights Tour Problem?
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Who is considered the greatest mathematician between the years 400 AD and 1300 AD? [closed]
Some mathematicians are considered the "greatest of their era". For instance, Archimedes is generally considered the greatest mathematician of Antiquity. …
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What are the Peirce's axioms of arithmetic and how do they relate to the Peano axioms?
I will be glad if someone who has seen Peirce's paper could summarily describe here Peirce's axioms and describe their relation to Peano's.
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Does the word "God" appear regularly in the works of Joseph Lagrange?
In the Religious opinions section of the Wikipedia article on Laplace, there is an excerpt from Antommarchi's "The Last Moments of Napoleon", in which it is written that
the name of God appeared e …
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Was Charles Sanders Peirce aware of Charles Babbage's difference engine?
Is there any indication that Charles Peirce was aware of Babbage and his work on mechanical computing?
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Are there any mathematicians who expressed non-obvious sets of rules on how to do research?
Are there any similar rules that were expressed before early 1800s by other mathematicians? …
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How did Kolmogorov came up with his formalization of intuitionistic logic?
According to this article Kolmogorov published a paper in 1925 in which he attempted to formalize Brouwer’s intuitionistic mathematics.
In that paper there are the following logical formulas:
\begin{ …
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Was Kolmogorov enraged after learning about the Karatsuba multiplication algorithm?
Some years ago, I read that Kolmogorov was so enraged that Karatsuba disproved one of his conjectures that he terminated his seminar shortly thereafter.
This Wikipedia page claims that Kolmogorov was …
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