User J.G.

42 votes

Why are quaternions more popular than tessarines despite being non-commutative?

answered Feb 13, 2021 at 23:07

10 votes

Examples of papers co-authored by parent/child, or siblings

answered Feb 23, 2019 at 7:30

8 votes

Why were the matrix multiplication rules chosen this way?

answered Mar 31, 2021 at 6:33

7 votes

Why didn't Mendel's experiments draw attention until the 20th century?

answered Jul 1, 2018 at 18:50

6 votes

From a historical perspective why is beta decay associated with an anti neutrino instead of a neutrino?

answered Jul 31, 2018 at 5:03

6 votes

Examples of Physical Discoveries with no Counterpart in Mathematics

answered Mar 30, 2021 at 6:18

5 votes

Did Karl Popper argue against Bayesian inference?

answered May 24, 2017 at 7:27

4 votes

If John Michell was more well known, would he rank above Isaac Newton in the history of science?

answered Dec 2, 2018 at 10:50

3 votes

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What is the work of al-Khwārizmī for algorithms?

answered Feb 12, 2018 at 12:31

3 votes

Why is the problem of demarcation important in the history of science?

answered Jan 16, 2019 at 6:51

2 votes

When was the earliest speculation that gravity and electromagnetism had a unified description?

answered Apr 17, 2021 at 18:05

1 vote

Did anyone ever propose a hypercomplex numbers system with more than one anisotropic axis?

answered Apr 25, 2021 at 6:55

1 vote

How much did Arabic and Persian scholars contribute to physics and mathematics?

answered Jul 1, 2017 at 20:43

0 votes

How many digits of Pi did the old Egyptians know?

answered May 15, 2018 at 15:59