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History of Science and Mathematics

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Has any 'difficult' proof ever been superseded by a 'simple' one?
Awarded Jun 8 at 15:52
Was Aristotle really wrong about gravity?
Awarded Jun 4 at 9:46
How did Babylonians figure out that the evening star is the morning star?
Awarded Mar 31 at 3:56
Did Alan Turing know the German language?
Awarded Feb 28 at 14:18
What scientists and mathematicians were afraid to publish their findings?
Awarded Feb 18 at 22:25
Is there any example of a long-standing mathematical conjecture whose resolution did not require advanced knowledge?
Awarded Feb 11 at 13:27
Which mathematicians died very young or in a tragic way?
Awarded Feb 3 at 1:10
Which mathematicians died very young or in a tragic way?
Awarded Dec 3, 2023 at 9:05
When was it realized that the giant planets do not have solid surfaces?
Awarded Nov 16, 2023 at 12:32
Does Arnold say that Hardy is responsible for Ramanujan's untimely death?
Awarded Nov 14, 2023 at 17:20
Examples of when the professional scientists or mathematicians were wrong, but the nonprofessionals were right
Awarded Nov 6, 2023 at 12:57
Who coined the term "signal-to-noise ratio" and when did statisticians start using the term "noise" to describe randomness?
Awarded Oct 18, 2023 at 17:47
What was Euler's motivation for introducing $i$ for $\sqrt{-1}$?
Awarded Oct 15, 2023 at 0:30
Why is American and French notation different for open intervals (x, y) vs. ]x, y[?
Awarded Sep 29, 2023 at 7:55
Autistic Assistant of Gauss used to check Primality
Awarded Aug 4, 2023 at 22:15
What famous theorems or results were proven by female mathematicians?
Awarded Jul 20, 2023 at 1:25
What was the vis viva controversy, including its philosophical aspects?
Awarded Jul 7, 2023 at 19:45
Why is one meter as long as it is?
Awarded May 1, 2023 at 22:46
What are examples of serendipity in the history of the sciences and math?
Awarded Apr 19, 2023 at 17:07
What are examples of serendipity in the history of the sciences and math?
Awarded Apr 19, 2023 at 16:21
How did Isaac Newton write the integral symbol?
Awarded Apr 4, 2023 at 16:42
When and why did the concept of relativistic mass become outdated?
Awarded Mar 30, 2023 at 0:26
What are the most precise measurements in science?
Awarded Mar 28, 2023 at 8:21
What was the relationship between Einstein and Minkowski?
Awarded Mar 16, 2023 at 18:10
Euler: “A baby on his lap, a cat on his back — that’s how he wrote his immortal works” (origin?)
Awarded Mar 5, 2023 at 23:36
Is it true that Albert Einstein was kicked out of high school due to his "peacefulness"?
Awarded Feb 20, 2023 at 10:04
How were irrational numbers accepted by mathematicians?
Awarded Jan 25, 2023 at 20:00
Why are quaternions more popular than tessarines despite being non-commutative?
Awarded Jan 8, 2023 at 9:17
How did Eratosthenes know the Sun was very far away?
Awarded Aug 22, 2022 at 20:57
Secrecy in Mathematics
Awarded Jul 5, 2022 at 15:05
Who introduced the Principle of Mathematical Induction for the first time?
Awarded Apr 29, 2022 at 13:02
What new mathematics was inspired by biology and chemistry?
Awarded Apr 26, 2022 at 11:07
Why did angular momentum get the letter L
Awarded Mar 28, 2022 at 12:56
Are there any mathematical objects that got renamed over time?
Awarded Mar 17, 2022 at 21:49
Which mathematicians died very young or in a tragic way?
Awarded Mar 9, 2022 at 4:26
How was Einstein led to make a contact with Differential Geometry for his theory of General Relativity?
Awarded Mar 7, 2022 at 21:33
Has there ever been a case where someone wished a theorem or important result wasn't named after them? Has it happened more than once?
Awarded Jan 24, 2022 at 23:31
Which mathematicians died very young or in a tragic way?
Awarded Jan 22, 2022 at 18:33
Did president Garfield make any contributions to Mathematics?
Awarded Jan 22, 2022 at 4:06
What makes the right angle special enough to be distinguished in the French metric system?
Awarded Nov 3, 2021 at 19:01
When was zero actually introduced in mathematics?
Awarded Oct 28, 2021 at 20:40
Who was the first to hypothesise that gravity from one mass causes the spacetime around another mass to curve?
Awarded Oct 16, 2021 at 12:15
Historical example of research papers being misinterpreted due to poor wording and creating controversy?
Awarded Oct 12, 2021 at 16:40
What are some scientific breakthroughs that have been done during jail time?
Awarded Sep 29, 2021 at 5:36
Irrationality of the square root of 2
Awarded Aug 26, 2021 at 4:02
Has there been an equivalent in physics to Ramanujan in maths?
Awarded Aug 15, 2021 at 0:46
What hair color did Évariste Galois have?
Awarded Aug 7, 2021 at 0:16
Has there been an equivalent in physics to Ramanujan in maths?
Awarded Aug 4, 2021 at 15:47
Emmy Noether or Emmy Nöther?
Awarded Jun 24, 2021 at 2:07
Did ancient Greek mathematicians consider numbers independently of geometry?
Awarded Jun 13, 2021 at 2:05
Has physics ever given a physical significance to a mathematically abstract idea?
Awarded Jun 10, 2021 at 16:41
Did Galileo Galilei believe in astrology?
Awarded Apr 20, 2021 at 14:56
Is the story about Fermat's writing on a margin true?
Awarded Feb 27, 2021 at 12:11
Why are quaternions more popular than tessarines despite being non-commutative?
Awarded Feb 15, 2021 at 11:34
Was Kolmogorov enraged after learning about the Karatsuba multiplication algorithm?
Awarded Feb 14, 2021 at 15:47
Story of a student who solves an open problem
Awarded Feb 4, 2021 at 21:36
How did people make things perfectly straight?
Awarded Jan 21, 2021 at 18:01
What are the earliest inventions to store and release energy (e.g. fly wheels)?
Awarded Jan 12, 2021 at 4:27
What is the difference between Calculus of Newton and that of Leibniz?
Awarded Jan 8, 2021 at 4:04
Which mathematicians died very young or in a tragic way?
Awarded Jan 5, 2021 at 18:27
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