History of Science and Mathematics
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What's the famous story about a mathematician who gave a talk without saying a word?
Mar 31, 2015
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Why do we call Tycho Brahe by his first name?
Jan 3, 2020
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Why did algebraic geometry need Alexander Grothendieck?
Jan 13, 2015
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What makes the right angle special enough to be distinguished in the French metric system?
Nov 2, 2021
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What new mathematics was inspired by biology and chemistry?
Feb 17, 2015
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Why did the ancient Greeks originally become interested in conic sections?
May 10, 2015
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Was object oriented programming influenced by the mathematical category theory?
Dec 10, 2014
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How did Ramanujan learn to do mathematics?
Oct 2, 2015
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What was the motivation for Minkowski spacetime before special relativity?
Dec 18, 2015
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Who introduced random variables into probability?
Apr 22, 2015
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Are units of angle really dimensionless?
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Which fallacy: "If white privilege exists, why did Elizabeth Warren pretend to be an Indian?"
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What are the ethical problems with flipping a coin to decide in the trolley problem?
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What fallacy in Pascal's Wager allows replacing God with the devil?
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Why do I accept some inconsequential claims as "obviously true" without evidence? E.g. "Most people don't like to be hit on the head with a hammer."

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