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Michael Weiss
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PhD in mathematical logic, but enjoy almost all branches of mathematics and lots of physics.

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What was Euler's motivation for introducing $i$ for $\sqrt{-1}$?
Nov 22, 2014
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Was Occam’s razor ever wrong?
Nov 2, 2014
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What was the vis viva controversy, including its philosophical aspects?
Nov 30, 2014
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Did ancient/medieval non-European cultures have a concept of energy? If so, what are the similarities and differences to the modern concept?
Nov 17, 2014
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Did physicists around 1900 really believe they were close to "figuring it all out"?
Nov 2, 2014
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What were the dominant non-atomic theories of matter in the 19th century?
Nov 2, 2014
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What specific problems motivated Poincaré's work on topology?
Oct 31, 2014
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How did group theory enter quantum mechanics?
Oct 31, 2014
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What sorts of calculations called for the invention of logarithm tables?
Nov 15, 2014
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Examples of Kuhn loss?
Nov 1, 2014

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Proposal: A tentative tagging scheme
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What should we do about "Who was first" or "When was [_____] first done/discovered/etc." questions?

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How to show a representation is irreducible?
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Are there 3 trig functions or are there 6 trig functions?
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What is torsion in differential geometry intuitively?
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(Soft Question) Why don't number theory books start with Peano axioms or derive the rule of product from first principles? Etc?
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Peano axiom of induction with "no junk"