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Franz Kurz

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Germany

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8 votes

Where are the mirrors of historic telescopes today?

answered Jun 11, 2017 at 6:25

14 votes

Which mathematicians died very young or in a tragic way?

answered Jun 12, 2017 at 21:33

1 vote

Examples of abstract proofs that turned out to be false

answered Jul 9, 2018 at 14:18

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Request for good resources on 'history of infinity' topics

answered May 25, 2018 at 11:00

-1 votes

Endorsers of the method of well-ordering reported by Hausdorff?

answered Mar 18, 2018 at 14:31

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Is there a formal distinction between potential and actual infinities?

answered Feb 5, 2018 at 7:05

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Was Babylonian Mathematics as sophisticated as Greek mathematics?

answered Jan 21, 2018 at 17:18

5 votes

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

answered Jan 13, 2018 at 16:07

2 votes

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

answered Jan 9, 2018 at 9:51

3 votes

Equation for the conservation of vis viva

answered Aug 14, 2017 at 12:54

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Does the word 'science' mean what's been found so far, or the way that human discovers unknown?

answered Aug 14, 2017 at 12:11

2 votes

Accepted

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

answered Jul 15, 2017 at 11:09

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

Who has invented this enumeration of all objects of thought?

answered May 26, 2017 at 16:17

1 vote

Who discovered the difference between the infinities?

answered Jun 24, 2017 at 14:18

-1 votes

Why is the notation $\sin^{-1} x$ so common?

answered Jun 22, 2017 at 20:49

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Why did Aristotle make mistakes in his laws of motion?

answered Jun 20, 2017 at 20:10

2 votes

When and why did the concept of relativistic mass become outdated?

answered Jun 20, 2017 at 15:12

3 votes

Where did Mathematics establish its roots?

answered Jun 20, 2017 at 13:53

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

1 vote

Considered a breakthrough at its time – almost forgotten nowadays

answered Jun 18, 2017 at 19:49

7 votes

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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

2 votes

Who was Puppe of the Puppe sequence?

answered Jun 18, 2017 at 10:53

1 vote

Did anybody know Pi well enough in 1592 to celebrate Pi day?

answered Jun 17, 2017 at 16:25

-3 votes

How much of mathematics did Russell's paradox really break?

answered Jun 15, 2017 at 14:20

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Was the term "manifold" (or its German equivalent) chosen with the verb "to fold" in mind?

answered Jun 15, 2017 at 21:16

4 votes

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

answered Jun 15, 2017 at 19:31

1 vote

Einstein and the concept of decoherence

answered Jun 14, 2017 at 11:40

1 vote

When was (and in what paper) Paley-Wiener integral invented?

answered Jun 13, 2017 at 17:10

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