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18 Which mathematicians died very young or in a tragic way? Jul 18 '17
9 When was the earliest use of log-log plots to demonstrate power-law behavior? Mar 25 '16
8 How did Newton and Kepler (actually) do it? Mar 25 '16
7 What's that on Euler's head? Does the head covering shown in Emanuel Handmann 1753 painting signify scholarship? Mar 31 '19
6 Was there an intentional purge of all audio recordings of Alan Turing? Jun 25 '18
6 What calculation did Halley or anyone else do to estimate the effects of Jupiter and Saturn on Halley's comet's return in 1758/9? Mar 11 '19
6 When and how did usage of the term Centigrade give way to Celsius? Are/were they in fact numerically identical? Feb 1 '19
5 What exactly was Lagrange's “grave mistake” with respect to rotating bodies under hydrostatic equilibrium? Jan 19
5 Who first reported the Crab pulsar's pulsing but was dismissed by an astronomer? Jan 1
4 Did old Crookes Radiometers ever have a pair of terminals? Mar 13 '19
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