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For questions about the location (in space and time) of scientific discoveries and their historical context.
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Apparently different objects discovered to be the same
I hope my memory of this is right...
James Clerk Maxwell came up with some differential equations to describe electricity and magnetism. As usual when differential equations are solved, there was …
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Madhava and $\pi$
This may be of interest...
Ranjan Roy, MR 1081274 The discovery of the series formula for $\pi$ by Leibniz, Gregory and Nilakantha, Math. Mag. 63 (1990), no. 5, 291--306.
The series referred to is
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Foundational crises in non-Western historical mathematical communities
Here is a sort of answer. It is merely a memory I have, so no reference. And I cannot say whether it is even true. Maybe someone knows a reference.
In ancient Egypt, if you go back far enough, y …
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Why is it called the butterfly effect?
SEE for more
Ed Lorenz in 1963 wrote
One meteorologist remarked that if the theory were correct, one flap of a sea gull's wings would be enough to alter the course of the weather forever. The con …
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When are units that are named after persons given their names?
HERE is a listing of the SI derived units. As far as I know, none of these were someone naming it for himself. If your name is Henry Gray then you are a double unit.
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What new mathematics was inspired by biology and chemistry?
How about: (1) the logistic equation of Pierre François Verhulst (describing the change in a population over time, published 1838) leads to (2) Feigenbaum's work on chaos.
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Did amateurs ever produce important proofs or similar?
Rice's work was eventually examined by mathematics professor Doris Schattschneider, who deciphered the unusual notation and formally announced her discoveries to the mathematics community. …
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Who discovered Bremsstrahlung?
See listing here:
Index of Early Bremsstrahlung Articles
The earliest items are: patents filed by Tesla in 1891 and 1892. And papers (by others, not Tesla) in Philosophical Magazine in 1891.
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