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Franz Kurz

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Germany

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14 votes

Which mathematicians died very young or in a tragic way?

answered Jun 12, 2017 at 21:33

8 votes

Where are the mirrors of historic telescopes today?

answered Jun 11, 2017 at 6:25

8 votes

Which mathematicians died very young or in a tragic way?

answered Jun 12, 2017 at 13:41

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

answered Jun 16, 2017 at 16:48

6 votes

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

answered Jun 20, 2017 at 11:32

5 votes

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

answered Jun 19, 2017 at 11:52

5 votes

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

answered Jan 13, 2018 at 16:07

5 votes

Old square bracket notation for units

answered Apr 26, 2017 at 13:47

5 votes

Literary works authored by mathematicians

answered May 28, 2017 at 13:47

5 votes

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

answered May 31, 2017 at 10:41

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Who was the first to mention the nine problem?

answered Dec 3, 2015 at 9:48

4 votes

Has any 'difficult' proof ever been superseded by a 'simple' one?

answered Jun 15, 2017 at 19:31

4 votes

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

answered Jul 9, 2017 at 11:10

3 votes

Where did Mathematics establish its roots?

answered Jun 20, 2017 at 13:53

3 votes

Equation for the conservation of vis viva

answered Aug 14, 2017 at 12:54

3 votes

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

answered May 29, 2017 at 14:07

3 votes

What are the earliest mentions of Prime Numbers?

answered Jun 8, 2017 at 15:28

3 votes

Did Poincaré say that set theory is a disease?

answered May 19, 2017 at 14:19

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When did error propagation become prominent in physics?

answered May 31, 2017 at 15:51

3 votes

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

answered Jun 4, 2017 at 10:44

2 votes

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

answered May 20, 2017 at 14:34

2 votes

Conflict between physics and philosophy

answered May 27, 2017 at 16:43

2 votes

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

answered Oct 28, 2016 at 20:59

2 votes

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What ever happened to the methylphenidate synthesiser and his family?

answered Jun 8, 2017 at 13:50

2 votes

The ancient concept of Finite Space

answered Jun 13, 2017 at 11:35

2 votes

Who was Puppe of the Puppe sequence?

answered Jun 18, 2017 at 10:53

2 votes

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

answered Jan 9, 2018 at 9:51

2 votes

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

answered Jun 20, 2017 at 15:12

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

answered Jul 15, 2017 at 11:09

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Who discovered the difference between the infinities?

answered Jun 24, 2017 at 14:18

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