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10 How did Newton guess that the answer to the 3-dimensional “kissing problem” is 12? Aug 31 '16
7 How did Archimedes's water clock work? Oct 6 '15
6 What was the “libration of Pallas” that Gauss studied, when Pallas is not a moon of Jupiter? Aug 27
6 Did Gauss see the analogy between number-theoretic concepts and knots? Apr 20 '17
6 Did Newton find the trajectory of a body moving in uniform gravity under the quadratic resistance law (the ballistic problem)? Sep 3 '16
5 Where in Gauss's nachlass did he pose the problem of connectedness of a surface? May 29
5 What are the modern connections of the Pentagramma Mirificum studied by Gauss? Aug 12 '18
5 What results did C. F. Gauss add to Euler’s dioptrics? Jun 11 '17
5 When did Gauss introduce “Gauss's planetary equations”? Dec 15 '16
5 Did Archimedes make use of a Pappus chain according to the Book of Lemmas? Sep 16 '16
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