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Practical and historical role of Jordan measure
Awarded Nov 27 at 13:17
Meaning of “expand by algebra” in an old Tripos question about $a^x$ and $\sin(x/m)$?
Awarded Nov 23 at 9:34
The original photograph of the Zeeman effect
Awarded Nov 22 at 3:22
Who coined the term "circulation" in fluid dynamics?
Awarded Nov 18 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 at 18:45
Survey of the ether theory as motivation of Maxwell's equations
Awarded Nov 16 at 11:48
History of l-adic cohomology
Awarded Nov 6 at 0:41
Question about the history of the definition of the second in SI
Awarded Nov 2 at 13:23
Wave function irrealists
Awarded Oct 31 at 21:07
Do there exist English translations of Arabic mathematics in the middle ages?
Awarded Oct 31 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 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 at 14:12
Did anyone seek to prove consistency by reducing math to a single theory, then prove that theory consistent?
Awarded Oct 26 at 12:20
Origins of the Airy function
Awarded Oct 26 at 3:28
Origin of "Distribution" in Differential Geometry
Awarded Oct 21 at 14:07
Other mathematical objects/topics that were named by a vote?
Awarded Oct 12 at 21:19
What did people call a newton before 1948?
Awarded Oct 8 at 14:13
When did equations begin to break away from geometry?
Awarded Oct 4 at 16:22
Did Grothendieck really single out zero and groups as the most important mathematical ideas of all time in his "Recoltes et Semailles"?
Awarded Sep 26 at 22:33
Origin of ramification/inertia in number theory?
Awarded Sep 24 at 20:52
Could you recommend a book that provides a detailed and accurate account of the historical context surrounding Grassmann's Theory of Extensions?
Awarded Sep 23 at 17:35
How did Schrödinger come up with the Klein-Gordon equation?
Awarded Sep 20 at 2:34
Reference request: Outline of a history of differential geometry in the 20th century
Awarded Sep 16 at 13:56
What was the content of the last paragraph of Riemann’s draft of the 1859 paper?
Awarded Sep 13 at 11:14
Who are some lesser-known women in science whose work was foundational but overlooked?
Awarded Sep 10 at 3:19
What is the history and present of the qualitative theory of ODE´s?
Awarded Sep 2 at 17:36
How exactly does Hamiltons Principle add to the work of Euler and Lagrange on mechanics?
Awarded Sep 1 at 10:17
David Hilbert and the Boltzmann equation
Awarded Aug 28 at 8:20
E.W. Dijkstra's reference to “operational reasoning” in "On anthropomorphism in science"
Awarded Aug 26 at 21:47
Why was Point 7 excluded when deciding where to excavate caverns for ATLAS and CMS?
Awarded Aug 24 at 21:35
How exactly did Maxwell derive the equations of electromagnetic waves?
Awarded Aug 20 at 14:49
What happened to Robert Curtis Retherford, co-author of the Lamb shift paper?
Awarded Aug 6 at 13:40
Which academics died because of persecution during the Chinese Cultural Revolution?
Awarded Aug 6 at 10:40
History of axioms in mathematics
Awarded Aug 2 at 8:31
How did students study Euclid in 17th and 18th century France?
Awarded Jul 25 at 6:11
French mathematician who contributed to complex analysis and worked as a woodcutter
Awarded Jul 24 at 1:26
First usage of the term "colimit"
Awarded Jul 17 at 18:00
Are the 64 hexagrams of the I Ching really written in binary?
Awarded Jul 15 at 23:37
Mathematical problems and chess
Awarded Jul 14 at 10:09
Why did Dirichlet study Fourier series of discontinuous functions?
Awarded Jul 12 at 22:31
Where did the real number axioms 'come from'?
Awarded Jul 10 at 18:10
Earliest known mention of the Mould effect, aka chain fountain, aka Newton's beads
Awarded Jul 7 at 1:58
Gauss and lemnatomic equations
Awarded Jul 2 at 21:31
How could Abel gave if and only if for solving equations by radicals without a clear concept of group theory?
Awarded Jun 24 at 5:31
Who was C.P. Willans?
Awarded Jun 24 at 5:04
Can you suggest textbook for history of modern mathematics like topology and abstract algebra?
Awarded Jun 24 at 4:36
What does the title page illustration of the 1621 translation of Diophantus' Arithmetica represent?
Awarded Jun 23 at 2:42
Stanislaw Jaśkowski: Natural deduction in diagrammatic notation 1929 papers?
Awarded Jun 19 at 20:02
Who was the first person to consider the closure property of permutation groups?
Awarded Jun 15 at 0:25
Who was the first mathematician to use Vieta Jumping?
Awarded Jun 14 at 23:48
Is there any documented evidence that anthyphairesis in ancient Greece arose from practical activities (e.g., measuring, cutting, surveying)?
Awarded Jun 13 at 0:58
Did Ramanujan intuitively understand Galois theory?
Awarded Jun 12 at 10:38
How did Roger Cotes come up with the idea of radian measure?
Awarded Jun 8 at 1:07
Did anyone build a Franklin's Bells device at the same size?
Awarded Jun 6 at 18:55
Were there any problems that Apollonius solved that Archimedes could not solve?
Awarded May 26 at 8:28
Help with origins of term 'Tukey mean-difference plot'
Awarded May 15 at 10:35
What was the intense religious experience that Pascal experienced on November 23, 1654? [closed]
Awarded May 15 at 7:10
Any mathematical historians want to collaborate on reporting results by Newton and Lagrange related to the general solution of polynomial equations? [closed]
Awarded May 13 at 2:50
Who said "Every vector space has a basis is theorem; you should use it."
Awarded May 12 at 19:45
How recent are developmental milestones systems for children
Awarded May 11 at 19:20
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