History of Science and Mathematics
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Carlo Beenakker
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physicist at Leiden University
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Why did I learn to write the base of the logarithm differently from the rest of the world?
Feb 3, 2017
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What was the answer to this paradox before Cantor?
Apr 2, 2015
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Did Srinivasa Ramanujan have a surviving sibling?
Jul 28, 2018
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Was Euler's theorem in differential geometry motivated by matrices and eigenvalues?
Jan 7, 2015
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What is the last physics paper or book written in Latin?
Oct 2, 2016
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When did the name “Boltzmann constant” prevail, and how?
Jan 11, 2018
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Hamiltonian $H$ named after Huygens?
Dec 1, 2021
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The origin and use of the term "equianharmonic" (elliptic function)
Dec 18, 2022
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Did Felix Bloch really discover Bloch oscillations?
May 11, 2022
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How can a mathematician handle the pressure to discover something new?
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Are there any serious investigations of whether "mathematicians do their best work when they're young"?
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PhD dissertations that solve an established open problem
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"Surprising" examples of Markov chains
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Should water at the scale of a cell feel more like tar?

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