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Was Aristotle really wrong about gravity?

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Mathematical results that became known long after their authors passed away

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Where are Galois's notes?

answered Dec 2, 2019 at 20:27

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Are there well-known mathematicians who shared Arnold's view about mathematics as natural science?

answered Jun 20, 2017 at 10:39

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Source for Felix Klein quote about curves

answered Jul 9, 2019 at 20:06

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Legendre's original text on elliptic functions

answered Oct 24, 2017 at 15:02

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What is the history of the energy concept and its measurement?

answered Jan 24, 2016 at 10:35

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Who was the 17th century mathematician "André Jumeau, Prior of Sainte-Croix"?

answered Oct 17, 2020 at 9:03

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How did Khayyam calculate the year so accurately?

answered Aug 28, 2020 at 8:57

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What was Copernicus trying to mean with 'Mathematics is Written for Mathematicians'?

answered Jan 18, 2020 at 17:45

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Who was E. Midy, the eponym of Midy's Theorem?

answered Mar 17, 2022 at 21:18

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how sophisticated was Egyptian and Babylonian mathematics compared to the Greeks

answered Oct 31, 2017 at 16:48

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Contribution of non-western mathematics to modern mathematics

answered Nov 3, 2017 at 9:55

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Whereabouts of oldest extant source for Apollonius’ Conics, Books I - IV

answered Aug 26, 2018 at 21:19

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Did Descartes leave solving the quintic as an exercise to his readers?

answered Aug 8, 2019 at 10:36

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What was the relationship between Einstein and Minkowski?

answered Sep 11, 2019 at 16:09

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When and why did the concept of relativistic mass become outdated?

answered Jun 23, 2017 at 9:19

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What books did Lavoisier read?

answered Nov 20, 2021 at 18:08

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Did the term "irrational number" initially have any derogatory intent?

answered Jan 8, 2025 at 18:58

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Is there a compiled list of references used by Copernicus?

answered May 10, 2025 at 18:54

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Origin of operators in quantum mechanics

answered Nov 16, 2017 at 10:04

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Why wasn't probability developed in ancient Greece?

answered Mar 13, 2016 at 21:25

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When were the concepts of pure and applied Mathematics introduced?

answered Jan 4, 2018 at 19:26

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Landau doubting conservation of energy---and what followed

answered Sep 6, 2021 at 21:24

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Was Planck's Constant a huge leap conceptually?

answered Jan 14, 2021 at 17:57

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Absolute space and time before Newton

answered Jun 20, 2017 at 10:16

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Laplace's Treatise of celestial mechanics

answered Apr 21, 2020 at 9:14

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Did Galileo Galilei believe in astrology?

answered Apr 14, 2021 at 20:32

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When did contemporary practices for indicating ecliptic longitude supplant those containing zodiacal signs?

answered Sep 1, 2021 at 9:08

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Compass and straightedge: why?

answered Mar 12, 2018 at 19:22

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Was Aristotle really wrong about gravity?

Mathematical results that became known long after their authors passed away

Where are Galois's notes?

Are there well-known mathematicians who shared Arnold's view about mathematics as natural science?

Source for Felix Klein quote about curves

Legendre's original text on elliptic functions

What is the history of the energy concept and its measurement?

Who was the 17th century mathematician "André Jumeau, Prior of Sainte-Croix"?

How did Khayyam calculate the year so accurately?

What was Copernicus trying to mean with 'Mathematics is Written for Mathematicians'?

Who was E. Midy, the eponym of Midy's Theorem?

how sophisticated was Egyptian and Babylonian mathematics compared to the Greeks

Contribution of non-western mathematics to modern mathematics

Whereabouts of oldest extant source for Apollonius’ Conics, Books I - IV

Did Descartes leave solving the quintic as an exercise to his readers?

What was the relationship between Einstein and Minkowski?

When and why did the concept of relativistic mass become outdated?

What books did Lavoisier read?

Did the term "irrational number" initially have any derogatory intent?

Is there a compiled list of references used by Copernicus?

Origin of operators in quantum mechanics

Why wasn't probability developed in ancient Greece?

When were the concepts of pure and applied Mathematics introduced?

Landau doubting conservation of energy---and what followed

Was Planck's Constant a huge leap conceptually?

Absolute space and time before Newton

Laplace's Treatise of celestial mechanics

Did Galileo Galilei believe in astrology?

When did contemporary practices for indicating ecliptic longitude supplant those containing zodiacal signs?

Compass and straightedge: why?