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What's the famous story about a mathematician who gave a talk without saying a word?

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Why do we call Tycho Brahe by his first name?

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What makes the right angle special enough to be distinguished in the French metric system?

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Why did the ancient Greeks originally become interested in conic sections?

May 10, 2015

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How did Ramanujan learn to do mathematics?

Oct 2, 2015

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Why did algebraic geometry need Alexander Grothendieck?

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What new mathematics was inspired by biology and chemistry?

Feb 17, 2015

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Was object oriented programming influenced by the mathematical category theory?

Dec 10, 2014

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Who introduced random variables into probability?

Apr 22, 2015

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What attracted Einstein to the anomalous precession of Mercury?

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Who invented multiplying by the conjugate to rationalize denominators and when?

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Which are the most ancient theorems that negate the existence of some deeply valued entity?

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Does Arnold say that Hardy is responsible for Ramanujan's untimely death?

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When did it become understood that irrational numbers have non-repeating decimal representations?

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Why wasn't probability developed in ancient Greece?

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Why did Newton want lines to be generated by continued motion of points rather than by apposition of parts?

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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"?

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What caused the name change from "analysis situs" to "topology"?

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