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69	What's the famous story about a mathematician who gave a talk without saying a word?
44	Why do we call Tycho Brahe by his first name?
29	Why did the ancient Greeks originally become interested in conic sections?
28	How did Ramanujan learn to do mathematics?
27	What was the motivation for Minkowski spacetime before special relativity?

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+10	What insight of Watson and Crick was missed by Franklin?
+10	Claims of mathematical breakthroughs while in an altered state of consciousness?
+55	Was Herschel ever inspired to write music through his astronomy research?
+10	Why was China slow to recognise the sphericity of Earth?

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35	What new mathematics was inspired by biology and chemistry?
32	Why did algebraic geometry need Alexander Grothendieck?
27	Was object oriented programming influenced by the mathematical category theory?
25	Who introduced random variables into probability?
24	What attracted Einstein to the anomalous precession of Mercury?

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22	When did it become understood that irrational numbers have non-repeating decimal representations?
13	Why did Newton want lines to be generated by continued motion of points rather than by apposition of parts?
13	Why wasn't probability developed in ancient Greece?
11	What is the original source for Abel's quote about Gauss:“He is like the fox, who effaces his tracks in the sand with his tail”?
9	What caused the name change from “analysis situs” to “topology”?

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