History of Science and Mathematics
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Which mathematicians died very young or in a tragic way?
Jul 18, 2017
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Has there ever been a case where someone wished a theorem or important result wasn't named after them? Has it happened more than once?
Jan 22
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Which mathematician traveled to and moved in with each collaborator?
Oct 18, 2020
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When was the earliest use of log-log plots to demonstrate power-law behavior?
Mar 25, 2016
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What's that on Euler's head? Does the head covering shown in Emanuel Handmann 1753 painting signify scholarship?
Mar 31, 2019
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Context behind Planck's "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents...but rather because its opponents eventually die..."?
Apr 18
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What exactly was Lagrange's "grave mistake" with respect to rotating bodies under hydrostatic equilibrium?
Jan 19, 2020
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How did Newton and Kepler (actually) do it?
Mar 25, 2016
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When and how did usage of the term Centigrade give way to Celsius? Are/were they in fact numerically identical?
Feb 1, 2019
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Who first reported the Crab pulsar's pulsing but was dismissed by an astronomer?
Jan 1, 2020
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How did the Apollo computers evaluate transcendental functions like sine, arctangent, log?
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What makes Ada the language of choice for the ISS's safety-critical systems?
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What aspects of image preparation workflows can lead to accidents like Boris Johnson's No. 10 tweet's 'hidden message'?
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If a massive object like Jupiter flew past the Earth how close would it need to come to pull people off of the surface?
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Are there any satellites in geosynchronous but not geostationary orbits?

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