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What's the famous story about a mathematician who gave a talk without saying a word?
Mar 31, 2015
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Why do we call Tycho Brahe by his first name?
Jan 3, 2020
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Why did algebraic geometry need Alexander Grothendieck?
Jan 13, 2015
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What new mathematics was inspired by biology and chemistry?
Feb 17, 2015
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What makes the right angle special enough to be distinguished in the French metric system?
Nov 2, 2021
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Who calculated for the first time the volume (and surface area) of the sphere exactly?
Jan 26, 2015
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What was the motivation for Minkowski spacetime before special relativity?
Dec 18, 2015
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Secrecy in Mathematics
Jul 3, 2022
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Was object oriented programming influenced by the mathematical category theory?
Dec 10, 2014
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Why did the ancient Greeks originally become interested in conic sections?
May 10, 2015
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Are units of angle really dimensionless?
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Is “If white privilege exists, why did Elizabeth Warren pretend to be an Indian?" a fallacy, and if so, which one?
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What are the ethical problems with flipping a coin to decide in the trolley problem?
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If Pascal's wager can be applied to belief in anything, then what is the fallacy in Pascal's wager?
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How undecidable is the spectral gap?