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For questions about the scientific discipline that concerns itself with analysing the laws of nature in full generality
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Did physicists around 1900 really believe they were close to "figuring it all out"?
According to (the late) William Strauss and Neil Howe in Generations, there are periodic episodes of scientific exhaustion, at least in the United States. For instance, around 1910, the head of the U …
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When exactly (and why) did matrices become a part of the undergraduate curriculum?
I will start by answering why matrix algebra became important, and then discuss approximately when.
"Matrices" underpin what is often called operations research. That is, the theory of decision makin …
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