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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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What was the chain of theories that led to relativity? [closed]
Can you briefly sketch the sequence of math theories that were necessary for Einstein to figure out a convincing background for relativity?
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What triggered jesuits' ban on infinitesimals in 1632?
... since the very idea of infinitesimal was foreshadowed by Cavalieri ( "limit") in 1635, then put forward in an indirect way by John Wallis ($1/\infty$) in 1655, and then formalized by Newton ( "$o …
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Were tables of square roots ever in use?
Before the advent of calculators they had useful ready made tables for the main functions:sines,cosines logs etc..., do you know if tables of square roots were ever produced or in use?
I never heard …
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What pythagorean table looked like?
Pythagoras introduced the multiplication table in Southern Italy about 500 BC, do we know how it looked like?
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I do not mean the so called pytagorean/multiplication/times table but the actual t …
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How did Romans do multiplications?
The Romans did not have Indian numerals. Worse still, they did not have the decimal system. Yet, they produced amazing works of engineering and architecture. How was that possible? It's troublesome …
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Cantor's fortune
Wiki says that his transfinite numbers met opposition:
Henri Poincaré referred to his ideas as a "grave disease" infecting
the discipline of mathematics, and Leopold Kronecker's public
opposition and … Kronecker objected to Cantor's proofs that the algebraic numbers are
countable, and that the transcendental numbers are uncountable,
results now included in a standard mathematics curriculum. …
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