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History of Science and Mathematics

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Why is electric potential denoted by $\phi$?
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Who are the youngest mathematicians that published an original research article in a peer-reviewed journal?
Awarded Oct 19 at 17:37
Difference between Perrin's and J. J. Thomson's experiment
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Has science fiction ever caused scientists to do real research?
Awarded Aug 25 at 3:42
Has science fiction ever caused scientists to do real research?
Awarded Jul 11 at 10:18
Who was the scientist who first showed that helium has a bound state, and was he a nazi?
Awarded Jun 5 at 7:06
Why don't we learn Buridan's laws of motion?
Awarded May 16 at 6:21
Writing Mathematical Symbols in 20th century
Awarded May 15 at 23:52
Why is $p$ used for momentum?
Awarded May 1 at 6:56
Can we fairly assess Ada Lovelace's talent for mathematics?
Awarded Apr 23 at 15:14
How were derivatives of trigonometric functions first discovered?
Awarded Apr 21 at 19:34
How did egyptian mathematical fractions evolve in antiquity?
Awarded Apr 11 at 15:24
What did Euclid mean by a straight line in his time?
Awarded Mar 9 at 19:50
Great scientists with chaotic private lives
Awarded Feb 27 at 15:52
What is Heaviside's version of Maxwell's equations?
Awarded Feb 16 at 11:05
What was the content of Emmy Noether's 'two-line' note on Homology?
Awarded Jan 19 at 0:18
Poincaré and the baker: was the anecdote true?
Awarded Jan 16 at 13:10
How did Galileo derive the law for a falling body without calculus?
Awarded Jan 13 at 6:55
What famous theorems or results were proven by female mathematicians?
Awarded Jan 7 at 16:55
Examples of when the professional scientists or mathematicians were wrong, but the nonprofessionals were right
Awarded Jan 7 at 14:36
Who created topology, and when, and what problems led to this creation?
Awarded Jan 6 at 15:40
Who is or was Stephen Barr, author of Experiments in Topology?
Awarded Jan 6 at 1:12
What led to the rise of Göttingen?
Awarded Dec 30, 2024 at 1:27
Source of Galileo quote on curves
Awarded Dec 29, 2024 at 10:36
Who is William Bigelow Easton?
Awarded Dec 16, 2024 at 14:18
What famous theorems or results were proven by female mathematicians?
Awarded Nov 26, 2024 at 18:08
Why was China slow to recognise the sphericity of Earth?
Awarded Nov 11, 2024 at 7:17
Was Aristotle really wrong about gravity?
Awarded Nov 10, 2024 at 14:10
When did error propagation become prominent in physics?
Awarded Oct 22, 2024 at 9:08
Did Einstein really say: "If I were wrong, it would only take one."
Awarded Oct 13, 2024 at 19:56
Has science fiction ever caused scientists to do real research?
Awarded Sep 25, 2024 at 7:40
Has science fiction ever caused scientists to do real research?
Awarded Sep 24, 2024 at 0:17
What happened to cybernetics?
Awarded Aug 27, 2024 at 12:46
What specific problems motivated Poincaré's work on topology?
Awarded Aug 14, 2024 at 13:06
Are there any well known mathematicians who were fascists?
Awarded Jun 20, 2024 at 10:07
Are there well-known mathematicians who shared Arnold's view about mathematics as natural science?
Awarded Jun 18, 2024 at 15:48
Bieberbach’s 1934 lecture on “German mathematics”
Awarded Jun 3, 2024 at 13:22
Examples of when the professional scientists or mathematicians were wrong, but the nonprofessionals were right
Awarded Jun 3, 2024 at 7:05
The terminologies "Adjoint" and "Adjugate"
Awarded May 24, 2024 at 18:35
When were mathematical conjectures first formulated and communicated?
Awarded May 14, 2024 at 7:16
Historical examples of "pseudoscience" becoming "science"
Awarded May 4, 2024 at 18:40
Why is kg the standard unit for mass and not g in SI?
Awarded Apr 30, 2024 at 20:41
The history of different constructions of tangent spaces
Awarded Apr 24, 2024 at 15:06
Were ancient Romans so bad at computations before Arab numerals?
Awarded Apr 17, 2024 at 13:16
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Awarded Apr 3, 2024 at 1:56
What was the motivation for Minkowski spacetime before special relativity?
Awarded Mar 22, 2024 at 19:51
How much ground was prepared for Riemann so that he could conjecture Riemann hypothesis?
Awarded Mar 1, 2024 at 5:18
Is there any example of a long-standing mathematical conjecture whose resolution did not require advanced knowledge?
Awarded Feb 17, 2024 at 7:41
Is there any example of a long-standing mathematical conjecture whose resolution did not require advanced knowledge?
Awarded Feb 11, 2024 at 13:45
Who was N.M. Stephens who refuted the Stronger Feit-Thompson Conjecture?
Awarded Jan 18, 2024 at 19:50
Did Gauss know Jacobi's four squares theorem?
Awarded Dec 27, 2023 at 18:18
Conditionally convergent series
Awarded Dec 25, 2023 at 15:05
How did Roger Cotes come up with logarithm form of Euler formula?
Awarded Dec 8, 2023 at 0:26
Why was the cubic specifically so hard to solve?
Awarded Dec 5, 2023 at 22:31
How did Eratosthenes determine that Alexandria and Syene were on the same meridian?
Awarded Nov 25, 2023 at 22:40
Where does the term elasticity (of a function) come from?
Awarded Nov 9, 2023 at 2:51
Historical examples of "pseudoscience" becoming "science"
Awarded Nov 6, 2023 at 13:06
Why are étale morphisms called "étale"?
Awarded Nov 6, 2023 at 10:35
Etymology of "power" (math.)
Awarded Oct 22, 2023 at 1:32
Was there an intentional purge of all audio recordings of Alan Turing?
Awarded Oct 7, 2023 at 0:46
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