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48 Questions

Did Gauss find the formula for $1+2+3+\ldots+(n-2)+(n-1)+n$ in elementary school?

What did Einstein contribute to Special Relativity that hadn't already been done by Lorentz in 1904 and Poincaré in 1905?

How was the resemblance between apes and humans explained in pre-Darwinian biology?

Who coined the term "iff" for "if and only if"?

Why didn't Einstein's Nobel Prize mention relativity theory?

Why is one of Maxwell's equations named after Ampère? Who first named it after Ampère?

Who are "analysts" and "synthesists" in mathematics?

Heisenberg's last work on a non-linear generalization of quantum mechanics?

Did Cauchy ever deal with double or triple integrals?

What is the last physics paper or book written in Latin?

What is the most ancient civilization that used base-16 (hexadecimal) number system?

Physics Curricula of 19th Century French Universities?

Who first discovered or invented the concept of "muscle memory"?

What did Noether contribute to the theory of integral invariants?

Why did the ancients believe celestial matter was of a different type than terrestrial matter?

What were the criticisms against the introduction of "vector analysis"?

Who is Hræðraford, the "learned clerk" "writing in modern chemical Latin"?

"Cycles" to "Hertz": Why the shift circa 1970?

Where in Gauss's works does he derive "Gauss's Law"?

What did Einstein learn in his university electricity and magnetism courses?

What was taught in 19th century European electricity and/or magnetism courses?

Who coined the term "immune system"?

Pre-20th century sources on information theory?

Who first proved Fubini's theorem $n$th order integrals?

Einstein praising Sophus Lie

Did Euclid formulate his definitions/postulates/common before or after writing all his theorems?

Why is Maxwell and not Ampère credited for unifying electricity and magnetism?

Why was Principia Proposition 43, Theorem 22 not published?

Is there a "Moore's Law" of length-determining apparatuses?

Who discovered quanta first, Planck or Einstein? [duplicate]