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14 votes

Which mathematicians died very young or in a tragic way?

8 votes

Where are the mirrors of historic telescopes today?

8 votes

Which mathematicians died very young or in a tragic way?

7 votes
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Is there any history into the methodology that Balmer used for the spectral line formula?

6 votes

Old square bracket notation for units

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Are there well-known mathematicians who shared Arnold's view about mathematics as natural science?

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Did Gauss know the residues theorem in complex analysis in 1811?

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Who first proved that $f_{xy} = f_{yx}$?

5 votes

Literary works authored by mathematicians

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When did people realize that the determinant of a matrix is actually the volume of a parallelepiped?

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Who was the first to mention the nine problem?

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Has any 'difficult' proof ever been superseded by a 'simple' one?

4 votes

Why and who was the first to denote the square root operation in fractional form as $1/2$

3 votes

Where did Mathematics establish its roots?

3 votes

Equation for the conservation of vis viva

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Where did John Wallis get the idea for $\infty$?

3 votes

What are the earliest mentions of Prime Numbers?

3 votes

Did Poincaré say that set theory is a disease?

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When did error propagation become prominent in physics?

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What innovations did Leibniz introduce in his design of the fountain of the Herrenhausen Gardens?

2 votes

What mathematician or scientist has published the most peer-reviewed articles on chess problems?

2 votes

Conflict between physics and philosophy

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Who first treated sets of objects as mathematical objects in their own right?

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What ever happened to the methylphenidate synthesiser and his family?

2 votes

The ancient concept of Finite Space

2 votes

Who was Puppe of the Puppe sequence?

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Did Euler ever write $f(x)$, with parentheses?

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When and why did the concept of relativistic mass become outdated?

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Did Aristotle suggest that different kinds of sound might travel at different speeds?

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Who discovered the difference between the infinities?