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68 What's the famous story about a mathematician who gave a talk without saying a word? Mar 31 '15
43 Why do we call Tycho Brahe by his first name? Jan 3
33 What new mathematics was inspired by biology and chemistry? Feb 17 '15
31 Why did algebraic geometry need Alexander Grothendieck? Jan 13 '15
28 Why did the ancient Greeks originally become interested in conic sections? May 10 '15
26 What was the motivation for Minkowski spacetime before special relativity? Dec 18 '15
26 Who calculated for the first time the volume (and surface area) of the sphere exactly? Jan 26 '15
26 Was object oriented programming influenced by the mathematical category theory? Dec 10 '14
25 Who introduced random variables into probability? Apr 22 '15
25 How did Ramanujan learn to do mathematics? Oct 2 '15
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