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History of quantum mechanics - Resource request
Awarded Dec 3, 2024 at 12:51
History and origin of the idea of Frame of reference
Awarded Nov 25, 2024 at 20:51
Does the earliest known use of an "average" occur after the invention of calculus?
Awarded Nov 23, 2024 at 15:42
Where can I find original statement of Hensel lifting lemma over integers modulo prime power in Kurt Hensel's publications?
Awarded Nov 22, 2024 at 18:18
Did Jacques Charles first attempt to use the Celsius scale in his gas law?
Awarded Nov 21, 2024 at 9:08
Was Einstein aware of Newton-Cartan theory?
Awarded Nov 18, 2024 at 22:26
Did Archimedes really think of himself as a 'pure' mathematician first and foremost?
Awarded Nov 18, 2024 at 1:51
How did Galois classify Abelian integrals without using Riemann surfaces?
Awarded Nov 16, 2024 at 7:49
Cases where a misunderstanding in mathematics led to misunderstanding of the physics?
Awarded Nov 11, 2024 at 23:49
Please recommend an article or book that explains Archimedes’ "The Method" in a detailed and objective manner
Awarded Nov 10, 2024 at 6:55
Modern term for "armed" magnets
Awarded Nov 7, 2024 at 21:16
Where can I find Hermann Weyl's review on Riemann's papers?
Awarded Nov 7, 2024 at 11:12
History of extension problem of abelian groups
Awarded Nov 6, 2024 at 9:08
Seeking Versluys' "Trigonometric" Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem (#95 in his 1914 book)
Awarded Nov 4, 2024 at 7:17
Why was temperature difference not historically be considered a form of energy
Awarded Nov 1, 2024 at 20:10
What is the first mention of the classical modular polynomial?
Awarded Nov 1, 2024 at 12:34
Did Dieudonné or Weyl ever comment on Archimedes? [closed]
Awarded Oct 31, 2024 at 8:58
How did they make copies of the 'international ohm'?
Awarded Oct 31, 2024 at 4:28
Why does Schrödinger get more credit for quantum mechanics than Heisenberg, even though Heisenberg’s work came first?
Awarded Oct 29, 2024 at 22:25
Why is the three-term recurrence relation for Legendre polynomials called "Bonnet's formula"?
Awarded Oct 17, 2024 at 10:33
Rigorous treatment of the modern history of deep learning
Awarded Oct 9, 2024 at 10:24
Did Newton view mathematics only as a tool for natural philosophy?
Awarded Oct 7, 2024 at 17:58
What are the minor points on this 32-point compass?
Awarded Oct 2, 2024 at 12:33
Solutions in integers for $n^2 + (n+1)^2 = k^2$
Awarded Sep 27, 2024 at 21:07
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Awarded Sep 24, 2024 at 23:14
Ptolemy, what Greek letters did he use to represent base pos numbers?
Awarded Sep 24, 2024 at 10:46
Did Gauss really call Archimedes an idiot? [closed]
Awarded Sep 23, 2024 at 15:25
Who thinks Grothendieck was the greatest?
Awarded Sep 19, 2024 at 14:10
Can you recommend a good book written about Newton's mathematical achievements?
Awarded Sep 18, 2024 at 11:57
Why is the Archimedean spiral called the Archimedean spiral? [closed]
Awarded Sep 16, 2024 at 3:32
Can the mathematical statements in John Derbyshire's book Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics be trusted?
Awarded Sep 13, 2024 at 16:04
Can I trust ET Bell's commentary on the work of mathematicians?
Awarded Sep 12, 2024 at 13:56
Who was this scientist who saw his whole theory(ies) demolished by a publication
Awarded Sep 5, 2024 at 20:13
How did Kepler devise his three laws?
Awarded Sep 3, 2024 at 23:27
Seeking quote about Georges Lemaître and visualization of 4 dimensions
Awarded Sep 1, 2024 at 1:55
Is there a resource about integer constructions and motivations?
Awarded Aug 31, 2024 at 16:04
Was it understood in the first century AD that some diseases are sexually transmitted?
Awarded Aug 31, 2024 at 15:55
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Awarded Aug 24, 2024 at 12:34
Why does the year start in January rather than March?
Awarded Aug 14, 2024 at 12:16
How did Jost Bürgi's logarithms work?
Awarded Aug 13, 2024 at 16:56
What are some examples of elegant solutions?
Awarded Aug 11, 2024 at 21:15
Did Einstein say the one-way speed-of-light is "not a fact of nature"?
Awarded Aug 8, 2024 at 21:49
What is the historical origin of the concept of calculating area by multiplying length and width?
Awarded Aug 6, 2024 at 17:40
Searching for the first ever use of Newtonian physics
Awarded Jul 31, 2024 at 14:50
Egyptian origin of Euclid's axiomatisation of geometry
Awarded Jul 25, 2024 at 9:35
Why are the categories of category theory called "category"?
Awarded Jul 21, 2024 at 12:55
Historically, when were the terrestrial planets first called terrestrial planets?
Awarded Jul 20, 2024 at 7:07
A Comprehensive Masterpiece on History of Science
Awarded Jul 16, 2024 at 12:25
Source for a story about algebraic number theory?
Awarded Jul 11, 2024 at 23:16
Who first proved the "Fundamental Theorem of Well-Ordered Sets"
Awarded Jul 8, 2024 at 12:30
Regula Pigri: How far does it date back?
Awarded Jul 7, 2024 at 13:03
Books using the axiomatic method
Awarded Jul 1, 2024 at 10:19
Was there experimental data underlying Einstein's $E=mc^2$?
Awarded Jun 30, 2024 at 1:05
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Awarded Jun 29, 2024 at 19:06
Who are some famous statisticians from the 20th and 21st centuries, who didn't have a formal training in statistics?
Awarded Jun 29, 2024 at 13:15
Folk stories and notions in mathematics that are likely false, inaccurate, apocryphal, or poorly founded?
Awarded Jun 27, 2024 at 17:25
Historically are there any documented attempts at finding algorithms that are asymptotically faster than the FFT for the Discrete Fourier Transform?
Awarded Jun 26, 2024 at 11:07
History of Leibniz' notation
Awarded Jun 23, 2024 at 19:16
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Awarded Jun 13, 2024 at 0:08
Were there any criticisms of his first FTA proof during Gauss's lifetime?
Awarded Jun 10, 2024 at 9:26
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