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Francois Ziegler
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Why did angular momentum get the letter L
Jan 15, 2015
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Why are canonical coordinates canonical?
Feb 11, 2017
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When was the function arrow notation $x \mapsto y$ first used?
Mar 11, 2017
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What was the main language in science/mathematics before 1850
Sep 7, 2018
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Help translate from German a quote by Hermann Weyl in Space Time Matter
Jul 1, 2018
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A knot cannot be tied in 4-dimensions, but when was this conjectured and proven?
Feb 19, 2017
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Was Dirac really trying to take the square root of the Klein-Gordon operator?
Oct 18, 2015
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Dirichlet integral's history
Dec 22, 2017
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Why is the Digamma function always denoted with the letter "psi"?
Dec 30, 2017
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(Co)Homology: From topology to the rest of mathematics?
Oct 12, 2017
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Nonequivalent definitions in Mathematics
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