Questions tagged [publishing]
For questions about historical aspects of the process of publishing results in academic journals or similar platforms for scientific and/or mathematical knowledge.
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What does the title page illustration of the 1621 translation of Diophantus' Arithmetica represent?
The Wikipedia page on Diophantus presents this image as the title page of a 1621 Latin translation of Arithmetica. The page contains a large illustration (below) with five sub-tableaux, that seem to ...
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Who are the youngest mathematicians that published an original research article in a peer-reviewed journal?
There is a lot of interesting information about young mathematicians, but I cannot find any information about the youngest mathematician that published an original research article in a peer-reviewed ...
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Early illustrations of topological notions in published work
Since I've not gotten any answers after a bit more than a week, I've now cross-posted to MathOverFlow. EDIT 2023-08-15: Several commenters here and at MO have asked me to sharpen the original question....
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Can we estimate the first appearance of popular science books?
Is it possible to say which was the first popular science book? I was reading this question Einstein's readings of popular sciences as a kid , and started wondering how far back this kind of ...
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Publication of mathematical papers in journals of enemy country
I restrict my question to mathematics since this is probably the most internationalized of all sciences. During WWII, did any British mathematicians (or mathematicians from allied countries) publish ...
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Why was Principia Proposition 43, Theorem 22 not published?
Why was Proposition 43, Theorem 22, of Newton's Principia not printed? Weinberg, To Explain the World (2015) describes this proposition: In an unpublished “Proposition 43” that did not make it into ...
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How many languages does Paul Erdős have publications in?
I was flicking through these slides by Prof. Richard Brent, wherein we have: Erdős (1955, in Hebrew) gave an upper bound M(n) = o(n2) as n → ∞. After some encouragement by Linnik and Vinogradov, he ...
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Articles published without their authors being aware
In 1962, a paper called “Multiplication of Many-Digital Numbers by Automatic Computers”, by Anatoly Karatsuba and Yuri Ofman, was published at the Proceedings of the USSR Academy of Sciences. It was ...
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Do Nobel prizes tend to go to theorists or experimenters?
Obviously not all cases are such that a theory is presented without experiment, and then the necessary experiment is done separately by another person... But when this IS the situation, to whom does ...
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Is there a way to search through the early journal issues of "Nature" and "Science" and read the issues online?
I'm working on an analysis of the use of the term "dogma/dogmatism" in 19th-century scientific periodicals, two of which are Nature (1869-) and Science (1880-). Basically, I search every issue for the ...
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When and where did scientific publications become the norm in mathematics?
In other words, how old is the practice of submitting mathematical work for peer review to specialized magazines? When/where it started to become the norm? My question is oriented toward the ...
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Are there theorems that have been truly lost?
Related: Are there any theorems that become "lost" and discarded over time? Is there a 'lost calculus'? The questions above use the term 'lost' to refer to theorems that exist in ...
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Were typographical variations between printings of the same journal article common?
In another question, I was asking about the origin of the reduced Planck's constant, $\hbar \equiv \frac{h}{2 \pi} .$ Specifically, I wanted to know why the symbol $`` \hbar "$ was selected for the ...
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Did Cambridge change their BSc policy for Ramanujan?
I found this quote at Quora: In March 1916 Ramanujan graduated from Cambridge with a Bachelor of Science by Research (This degree was later renamed as Ph.D. from 1920) for his work on Highly ...
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Name of the paper that suffered a famous editor mistake
I have heard about a "famous" mistake made on a physics paper by the editor of a scientific journal but I can't seem to find the paper or even to recall what it was about. Has anyone hear of this and ...
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