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History of Science and Mathematics

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What is the history of vector bundles and their characteristic classes?
Awarded Feb 1, 2024 at 6:56
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Awarded Jan 24, 2024 at 23:49
Was there historical influence of lattice theory on category theory?
Awarded Jan 20, 2024 at 21:02
Who was this person in the Early Modern Period who wrote a manual on writing "good science"?
Awarded Jan 19, 2024 at 21:21
What was defined first and how? The ampere or the vacuum permeability?
Awarded Jan 12, 2024 at 13:36
Who was the first to define the limit of a convergent sequence with quantifiers $\forall$ and $\exists$?
Awarded Jan 9, 2024 at 19:45
What is the earliest documentation of counting and what was it used for?
Awarded Jan 9, 2024 at 19:41
Is there evidence that Gödel said "phoned with God"?
Awarded Jan 9, 2024 at 13:09
Feynman learning technique
Awarded Jan 9, 2024 at 2:15
What was John Cantius' contribution to the theory of impetus?
Awarded Jan 9, 2024 at 0:36
Who discovered that the electromagnetic tensor is the curvature of a connection?
Awarded Jan 8, 2024 at 1:41
Origin of the name "Loschmidt echo" in quantum chaos studies
Awarded Dec 30, 2023 at 20:43
How do I obtain the first column of Plimpton 322 from the other columns?
Awarded Dec 30, 2023 at 11:34
What is the earliest paper in which local edge connectivity was defined?
Awarded Dec 26, 2023 at 17:32
Is there a concise but detailed history of electricity?
Awarded Dec 25, 2023 at 18:08
Hamilton's derivation for the characteristic function in his essay
Awarded Dec 25, 2023 at 15:26
What is the history of the classification of states of matter?
Awarded Dec 24, 2023 at 22:57
Usage of the word "autonomous" to refer to time-invariant differential equations
Awarded Dec 22, 2023 at 13:12
History of logarithmic potential
Awarded Dec 21, 2023 at 12:28
Where does the famous equation $F = G\cfrac{m_1m_2}{r^2}$ come from?
Awarded Dec 16, 2023 at 15:57
Could Newton have come up with General Relativity? [closed]
Awarded Dec 15, 2023 at 23:36
Kekulé and his discovery of benzene
Awarded Dec 14, 2023 at 4:57
What was the role of Schmidt in derivation of the Gram-Schmidt process?
Awarded Dec 6, 2023 at 8:31
How do we explain the lack of activity in the study of Latin mathematics?
Awarded Dec 4, 2023 at 16:47
Did Caroline Herschel know about the discovery of Neptune?
Awarded Dec 1, 2023 at 13:57
In JJ Thomson's cathode ray experiment I need values for the electric field and magnetic field when net force on the cathode beam = 0
Awarded Dec 1, 2023 at 0:05
Who are the youngest mathematicians that published an original research article in a peer-reviewed journal?
Awarded Nov 28, 2023 at 20:08
What is Cardano trying to say in this passage of his Ars Magna Arithmeticæ?
Awarded Nov 28, 2023 at 6:46
Who wrote "projective geometry" for the first time?
Awarded Nov 27, 2023 at 15:15
How did someone discover LCM?
Awarded Nov 27, 2023 at 14:11
Historic misidentification of transuranium elements?
Awarded Nov 25, 2023 at 13:27
How did the concept of pH originate and develop?
Awarded Nov 24, 2023 at 21:27
Is there existing footage of Stanislaw Mazur giving Per Enflo a live goose for solving the approximation problem?
Awarded Nov 17, 2023 at 9:42
What was the motivation for the choice of the subset symbol?
Awarded Nov 15, 2023 at 12:56
Reference request: What were the problems of accepting zero, negative numbers, and complex numbers? And how were they solved?
Awarded Nov 5, 2023 at 21:07
Who evaluated the surface of the Torricelli solid/Gabriel's horn
Awarded Oct 28, 2023 at 22:46
Did Fibonacci not grasp the idea of zero?
Awarded Oct 26, 2023 at 21:55
$l^p$ space definition
Awarded Oct 22, 2023 at 3:42
Onsager on phase transitions
Awarded Oct 19, 2023 at 20:16
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Awarded Oct 12, 2023 at 20:30
Source of a Poincaré quote: "Logic sometimes makes monsters..."
Awarded Oct 11, 2023 at 1:26
Why energy rate did not replace power = Force times velocity?
Awarded Oct 7, 2023 at 15:38
Can I find the number e in the tables of Napier?
Awarded Oct 1, 2023 at 22:18
How sensitive was the frog galvanoscope?
Awarded Oct 1, 2023 at 10:12
History of right hand rule
Awarded Sep 27, 2023 at 12:57
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Awarded Sep 26, 2023 at 13:56
Is there a comprehensive list of Ancient Greek mathematical writings?
Awarded Sep 23, 2023 at 2:37
Who was the scientist who first showed that helium has a bound state, and was he a nazi?
Awarded Sep 14, 2023 at 23:26
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Awarded Sep 12, 2023 at 16:04
"Équation de Maxwell-Thomson"
Awarded Sep 12, 2023 at 7:18
Did the Romans really use the binomial formula to calculate products?
Awarded Sep 11, 2023 at 16:05
Did the plum pudding model of the atom make any successful predictions?
Awarded Sep 6, 2023 at 21:07
How does Legendre transformation in classical mechanics relate to Adrien-Marie Legendre?
Awarded Sep 4, 2023 at 4:51
Who found the formula for sequential Stern-Gerlach experiments and when?
Awarded Aug 30, 2023 at 4:21
Did Cardano predict the date of his death then commit suicide on that date?
Awarded Aug 29, 2023 at 22:41
How was light polarization interpreted when first discovered?
Awarded Aug 25, 2023 at 8:42
Use of blackboard bold "ℝ" to refer to real numbers?
Awarded Aug 20, 2023 at 21:05
Can the so-called completeness of real numbers be understood as closure under limits in the real number system?
Awarded Aug 20, 2023 at 10:02
Did the Maclaurin series for sine and cosine unsettle Indian mathematicians?
Awarded Aug 15, 2023 at 17:17
Teiji Takagi's Fondation of Class Field Theory in Terms of Norms
Awarded Aug 10, 2023 at 14:36
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