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For questions about the quantitative study of topics such as numbers, structure, space, and change, carried out by investigating patterns
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Where did Mathematics establish its roots?
Alexandre Eremenko's answer is all good, but here are some extra things :
Mathematics did sort of develop independently several times in history, I believe basically three times during the Iron Age : … Edit : Some more things, I guess :
I cannot find much in the ways of sources indicating foreign origins of chinese mathematics, except perhaps babylonian (Chinese mathematics was pretty tied to astronomy …
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Are there theorems that have been truly lost?
I did once write an email to Robert Geroch, because an unpublished paper of his was listed as a bibliographical reference in a paper of Hajicek, which contained a few theorems regarding non-Hausdorff …
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The Principia Mathematica's missing chapters
The numbering of the chapters of Bertrand Russell and Alfred Whitehead's Principia Mathematica is the following :
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 30, etc
overall, ther …
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What are some concepts/discoveries in mathematics and science that found practical applicati...
I would probably say number theory, which had quite a lot of work on theorems regarding prime numbers that (as far as I know) did not get much use until the development of cryptography, such as the RS …
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Ancient drawing board in mathematics
According to Van Der Waerden's "Science Awakening", it was common for Ancient Greek mathematicians to use a board filled with sand to draw their figures, ie :
But the ancients made their geometric dr …
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What geometric results were first proven by assuming all real numbers are rational?
In particular, a lot of Pythagorean mathematics was the theory of proportions, a theory of proportion that was only valid for figures of rational proportions, which I would guess they imagined valid for …
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