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What is the origin of the method of undetermined coefficients?
Awarded Apr 27 at 15:51
Who was S.A. Jayawardene, historian of mathematics and science?
Awarded Apr 19 at 8:34
Locating a Natalia Grinberg quote on IMO (non-)participation
Awarded Apr 6 at 11:17
Who first made the distinction between $\alpha$, $\beta$ and $\gamma$ radiations & how was it done?
Awarded Mar 29 at 9:16
Did Leibniz ever provide any reason or explanation for his determinant formula as a sum of permutations?
Awarded Mar 27 at 16:30
Is the math word for pole in French a bad translation?
Awarded Mar 26 at 21:23
Wave function irrealists
Awarded Mar 18 at 12:52
What mathematical texts were used for teaching arithmetic, geometry, and astronomy before Euclid’s Elements?
Awarded Mar 11 at 15:37
What was the exact statement of the Poincaré–Bendixson theorem proved by Poincare and Bendixson?
Awarded Mar 3 at 17:31
Leibniz on what is reasoning
Awarded Feb 19 at 14:03
How and when were $\sin$ and $\cos$ first defined beyond $[0,\pi/2]$?
Awarded Feb 11 at 17:48
What does the gredient mean in contragredient representation (dual representation)
Awarded Feb 3 at 14:33
Meaning of “expand by algebra” in an old Tripos question about $a^x$ and $\sin(x/m)$?
Awarded Jan 7 at 9:53
Origin of "perfect group" in Mathematics
Awarded Jan 5 at 16:38
Where/when/how did "Euler angles" originate?
Awarded Dec 26, 2025 at 19:52
Was Aristotle aware of Galileo's law of Inertia?
Awarded Dec 20, 2025 at 9:42
Pascual Jordan's paper on the "Fermi-Dirac" statistics
Awarded Dec 14, 2025 at 21:07
When was the symbol "U" first used to denote voltage or electric potential difference?
Awarded Nov 28, 2025 at 4:59
Survey of the ether theory as motivation of Maxwell's equations
Awarded Nov 16, 2025 at 16:07
Why have Princeton University's free online Einstein archives disappeared?
Awarded Nov 9, 2025 at 20:01
Historical precedents for multiple independent theories converging on the same dimensionless constant before experimental confirmation?
Awarded Nov 8, 2025 at 9:32
Do there exist English translations of Arabic mathematics in the middle ages?
Awarded Nov 2, 2025 at 20:46
Question about the history of the definition of the second in SI
Awarded Nov 2, 2025 at 16:44
Origins of the Airy function
Awarded Oct 26, 2025 at 3:28
Origin of "Distribution" in Differential Geometry
Awarded Oct 22, 2025 at 22:17
Other mathematical objects/topics that were named by a vote?
Awarded Oct 15, 2025 at 20:47
Historical description of electromagnetism as curvature
Awarded Oct 13, 2025 at 3:05
What did people call a newton before 1948?
Awarded Oct 8, 2025 at 22:34
Origin of ramification/inertia in number theory?
Awarded Sep 27, 2025 at 17:12
How did Schrödinger come up with the Klein-Gordon equation?
Awarded Sep 19, 2025 at 21:12
Who are some lesser-known women in science whose work was foundational but overlooked?
Awarded Sep 10, 2025 at 3:19
E.W. Dijkstra's reference to “operational reasoning” in "On anthropomorphism in science"
Awarded Aug 28, 2025 at 15:52
David Hilbert and the Boltzmann equation
Awarded Aug 28, 2025 at 13:38
Mathematical problems and chess
Awarded Aug 15, 2025 at 8:41
What happened to Robert Curtis Retherford, co-author of the Lamb shift paper?
Awarded Aug 11, 2025 at 8:50
French mathematician who contributed to complex analysis and worked as a woodcutter
Awarded Jul 24, 2025 at 1:36
First usage of the term "colimit"
Awarded Jul 18, 2025 at 19:08
Why did Dirichlet study Fourier series of discontinuous functions?
Awarded Jul 13, 2025 at 18:50
Where did the real number axioms 'come from'?
Awarded Jul 13, 2025 at 8:25
Stanislaw Jaśkowski: Natural deduction in diagrammatic notation 1929 papers?
Awarded Jun 25, 2025 at 15:21
What does the title page illustration of the 1621 translation of Diophantus' Arithmetica represent?
Awarded Jun 23, 2025 at 12:41
Did Ramanujan intuitively understand Galois theory?
Awarded Jun 14, 2025 at 4:41
Did von Neumann consider his mathematical formulation of quantum mechanics to be essentially complete?
Awarded Jun 8, 2025 at 16:47
Why is $p$ used for momentum?
Awarded May 6, 2025 at 17:47
How did Leibniz know that a graph of function can be represented as infinitely small segments?
Awarded Apr 27, 2025 at 13:10
Did Euler guess the Basel problem’s solution to be $\frac{\pi^2}{6}$?
Awarded Mar 13, 2025 at 12:20
Who discovered that vacuum tubes could be used for logic and computation?
Awarded Feb 27, 2025 at 21:26
The Law of Conservation of Energy and the Illusive Real Reference Frame, why has no one in history seriously discussed this issue? [closed]
Awarded Feb 22, 2025 at 8:07
Has there been controversy about the existence/location of some organ/bone in the history of medicine?
Awarded Feb 20, 2025 at 7:02
Origins of Bessel function
Awarded Feb 8, 2025 at 3:32
In which experiments had vacuum been shown to be a good conductor of electricity?
Awarded Jan 30, 2025 at 2:52
Did Ada Lovelace find the general solution for a set of linear equations?
Awarded Jan 24, 2025 at 14:02
Why is bar notation ($\bar{x}$) preferred over square brackets ($[x]$) for quotient rings?
Awarded Jan 23, 2025 at 1:07
How did scientists (or researchers ) discover prograde and retrograde burns?
Awarded Jan 20, 2025 at 18:17
Who firstly used ≣ as "strictly equivalent to"?
Awarded Jan 17, 2025 at 16:47
Who discovered this formula in multivariable calculus?
Awarded Jan 9, 2025 at 16:06
Hardy's ratings of mathematicians
Awarded Jan 7, 2025 at 3:56
Did the formation of Differential Geometry come before Differential Topology/ Topology in general?
Awarded Jan 6, 2025 at 18:05
Source of Galileo quote on curves
Awarded Jan 2, 2025 at 19:22
How did Galileo derive the law for a falling body without calculus?
Awarded Dec 28, 2024 at 0:37
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