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Some appear to argue that much of the Elements by Euclid is a compilation of knowledge handed down to Euclid from his predecessors. On the other hand, some credit the...
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1 answerIn math stack exchange I often see notations like ${xinmathbb Q:x^2<2}$ being called instances of set builder notation. When I went to school we (that is,...
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1 answerAre there any translations of the following into English, German, or Russian?Nicolas Bourbaki, Sur le théorème de Zorn, Archiv der Mathematik, Volume 2, pages 434–437, November 1949.Any...
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0 answerWikipedia's article on Pierre Samuel claims (uncitedly):He was a member of the Bourbaki group, and filmed some of their meetings. A French television documentary on Bourbaki broadcast...
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2 answerNowadays, when one searches for little-known trigonometric functions, one usually finds a list containing the versine, coversine, vercosine, and covercosine. When using this list, $1+cos(x)$ is given the name...
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1 answerThe wikipedia page about experimental research history cites Ibn al-Haytham as an early pioneer of experimental research.Since Galen was the last prominent ancient greek philosophers/doctor and...
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0 answerRaymond Boyce was one of the first pioneers of the relational database and a co-developer of SQL, yet it is almost impossible to find any pictures of him:...
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1 answerF. Klein mentions a certain Blumenthal in his famous book on the history of mathematics in 19th century with the following verse(when he was talking about the curvature in space):Die...
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0 answerRichard Feynman is considered to be one of the greatest minds in physics, and has won many accolades as a result of his research in areas such as quantum mechanics...
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1 answerI am not sure in what bio I read this but it was not a new bio -- not Isaacson, for example. The anecdote was simply that he wanted to...
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