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History of Science and Mathematics

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Awarded 2108 times.
Did Vitali put an end to Lebesgue's measure problem?
Awarded Apr 20 at 11:00
Who was S.A. Jayawardene, historian of mathematics and science?
Awarded Apr 17 at 18:18
What is the difference between a wire and a cable in the context of telegrams?
Awarded Apr 8 at 11:24
What is a 'concept of zero', exactly? [closed]
Awarded Apr 7 at 21:51
What were the notable achievements Pierre Deligne produced before the age of 20?
Awarded Apr 7 at 7:07
Locating a Natalia Grinberg quote on IMO (non-)participation
Awarded Apr 6 at 0:21
Io, Europa, Ganymede, . . . Calypso?
Awarded Apr 1 at 21:55
Who first made the distinction between $\alpha$, $\beta$ and $\gamma$ radiations & how was it done?
Awarded Mar 29 at 9:08
Did Leibniz ever provide any reason or explanation for his determinant formula as a sum of permutations?
Awarded Mar 26 at 16:50
Is the math word for pole in French a bad translation?
Awarded Mar 25 at 23:33
Did Galileo note the equipotency between segments of different lengths?
Awarded Mar 12 at 19:40
What mathematical texts were used for teaching arithmetic, geometry, and astronomy before Euclid’s Elements?
Awarded Mar 12 at 12:35
priority of Leibniz's way of generalizing an ellipse
Awarded Mar 3 at 22:16
What was the exact statement of the Poincaré–Bendixson theorem proved by Poincare and Bendixson?
Awarded Mar 2 at 16:31
Leibniz on what is reasoning
Awarded Feb 18 at 21:54
What is the distinction between the terms "integration" and "quadrature"?
Awarded Feb 11 at 17:12
How and when were $\sin$ and $\cos$ first defined beyond $[0,\pi/2]$?
Awarded Feb 10 at 21:41
Accuracy of Math Genealogy entries
Awarded Feb 8 at 12:37
What does the gredient mean in contragredient representation (dual representation)
Awarded Feb 3 at 14:33
What factors contributed to the renaissance of number theory in the 1970s?
Awarded Jan 31 at 17:15
How did Newton correctly estimate the Earth's mean density without knowing $G$?
Awarded Jan 30 at 15:08
How were trig tables calculated, historically?
Awarded Jan 30 at 14:11
When decoding Enigma, was there really only benefit in cracking it during the same day? (popular movie depictions) [closed]
Awarded Jan 27 at 9:09
Was there a MIX (assembly language) user group
Awarded Jan 24 at 0:01
What is the history of the name "Naja" from Sanskrit in the scientific classification of snakes?
Awarded Jan 15 at 8:27
Where can I find the historical information or the stats related to Winning WW2 with the minimum actions using The Bombe Machine of Alan Turing?
Awarded Jan 12 at 23:02
How did mathematicians view Bourbaki before it was discovered that he was a pseudonym of a collective of French mathematicians?
Awarded Jan 12 at 12:02
What was the problem with action at a distance "classically" only that fields are introduced?
Awarded Jan 7 at 22:39
Where can we find this view of Fadeev's mathematics?
Awarded Jan 6 at 14:17
Origin of "perfect group" in Mathematics
Awarded Jan 5 at 11:55
Historical description of electromagnetism as curvature
Awarded Jan 4 at 2:19
What are some very original theories in the history of physics that were ultimately proven wrong?
Awarded Dec 27, 2025 at 0:53
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Awarded Dec 26, 2025 at 22:49
Search for an article by a mathematician with the surname Poli (presumably German, late 19th - early 20th century)
Awarded Dec 20, 2025 at 21:21
Where/when/how did "Euler angles" originate?
Awarded Dec 20, 2025 at 9:05
Was Aristotle aware of Galileo's law of Inertia?
Awarded Dec 19, 2025 at 18:25
$a^b=b^a$ (very nice symmetric equation)
Awarded Dec 13, 2025 at 12:24
Why and how did the study of complex numbers progress despite the denial of negative numbers?
Awarded Dec 13, 2025 at 4:47
Pascual Jordan's paper on the "Fermi-Dirac" statistics
Awarded Dec 9, 2025 at 22:03
Giza pyramids and convergents of √φ/2 — known connection?
Awarded Dec 8, 2025 at 23:37
How did we go from Principia Mathematica to Lambda calculus?
Awarded Dec 8, 2025 at 21:38
How did Eratosthenes measure the angle of the sun wrt. the vertical?
Awarded Dec 6, 2025 at 0:11
Practical and historical role of Jordan measure
Awarded Nov 27, 2025 at 13:17
Meaning of “expand by algebra” in an old Tripos question about $a^x$ and $\sin(x/m)$?
Awarded Nov 23, 2025 at 9:34
The original photograph of the Zeeman effect
Awarded Nov 22, 2025 at 3:22
Who coined the term "circulation" in fluid dynamics?
Awarded Nov 18, 2025 at 12:54
How did early 19th century physicists define efficiency of a heat engine if they didn't know that heat is energy?
Awarded Nov 17, 2025 at 18:45
Survey of the ether theory as motivation of Maxwell's equations
Awarded Nov 16, 2025 at 11:48
History of l-adic cohomology
Awarded Nov 6, 2025 at 0:41
Question about the history of the definition of the second in SI
Awarded Nov 2, 2025 at 13:23
Wave function irrealists
Awarded Oct 31, 2025 at 21:07
Do there exist English translations of Arabic mathematics in the middle ages?
Awarded Oct 31, 2025 at 17:12
How did *EARLIER* physicists like Maxwell actually believe that fields carry energy and momentum even though it didn't have mass?
Awarded Oct 29, 2025 at 20:00
How this estimation $\frac{2A(n-1)^n}{n^{n}\sqrt{n-1} } $ was made?(in the absence of Stirling's formula, what method of estimation was available?)
Awarded Oct 29, 2025 at 14:12
Did anyone seek to prove consistency by reducing math to a single theory, then prove that theory consistent?
Awarded Oct 26, 2025 at 12:20
Origins of the Airy function
Awarded Oct 26, 2025 at 3:28
Origin of "Distribution" in Differential Geometry
Awarded Oct 21, 2025 at 14:07
Other mathematical objects/topics that were named by a vote?
Awarded Oct 12, 2025 at 21:19
What did people call a newton before 1948?
Awarded Oct 8, 2025 at 14:13
When did equations begin to break away from geometry?
Awarded Oct 4, 2025 at 16:22
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