Top new questions this week:
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The "Andréief identity" or "Andréief-Heine identity", which can be interpreted as a continuous analogue of the Cauchy-Binet formula, comes up a lot in the context of random matrix ...
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Boole could have represented "$x$ is a subclass of $y$" via the formula $x=xy$ (where $xy$ signifies the intersection of the class $x$ and the class $y$), but according to Daniel Bonevac and ...
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I recently became interested in a person named Vandermonde when I posted a question on this site about the history of determinants and read the answers and comments. He was a person who loved music ...
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I am looking for books that are very technical on History of Science as a whole. It should be encyclopedia-typed, and written by prominent historians. It should also include philosophy of science type ...
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I asked this on the Astronomy Stack Exchange, but it's probably better suited here—When did we start using the phrase "terrestrial planets" to refer to the inner planets in English ...
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Background
I am interested in scientists and mathematicians that were afraid to publish their findings during their lifetime, and to what degree such fears hinder scientific progress.
So far, I've ...
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I am interested in very early inventions that allowed energy to be stored and released after a delay even it's just a short time. With "invention" I mean a novelty that is the result of ...
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In the film "The Imitation Game" Alan Turing, while being interviewed at Bletchley Park, confesses that he doesn't speak German, which almost makes him fail the interview. I think I read ...
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Why is $\mathrm{kg}$ the standard unit for mass and not $\mathrm{g}$?
I know that there is the kilogramme des Archives which is a kilogram and not a gram. But originally on April 7, 1795 the gram was ...
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It is well known that Évariste Galois died a young man. I have heard that he died in a duel. What was the duel about? More rather what is the back story behind his death and did he really write down ...
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I know the definition and the procedure to calculate the inverse of a matrix, but I want to know the history of starting the idea of an inverse matrix. mathematicians must have faced a real life ...
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I'm very interested to learn about historical phenomenology of proportion and ratios, i.e. I want to know how and why people in the past introduced these concepts. As far as I understand symmetric ...
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