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Math Professor. Interested in history of mathematics, astronomy, navigation, physics, technology, VI BC-1960 AD.

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Which came first, the natural logarithm or the base of the natural logarithm?
Oct 29, 2014
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When exactly (and why) did matrices become a part of the undergraduate curriculum?
Nov 1, 2014
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How did Eratosthenes know the Sun was very far away?
Aug 21, 2022
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Writing Mathematical Symbols in 20th century
May 7, 2015
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Has there been an equivalent in physics to Ramanujan in maths?
Aug 2, 2021
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What is so mysterious about Archimedes' approximation of $\sqrt 3$?
Jan 4, 2015
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How was Lagrange appointed professor of mathematics so early?
Apr 23, 2019
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How did Napier come to invent logarithms?
Dec 10, 2014
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How did German become the language of science?
Nov 1, 2014
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Is the story about Fermat's writing on a margin true?
Feb 25, 2021
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Nontrivially fillable gaps in published proofs of major theorems
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Mistakes in mathematics, false illusions about conjectures
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Mathematical conjectures on which applications depend
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Is the Riemann zeta function surjective?
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Good "casual" advanced math books