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In an interview of Heisenberg by Thomas Kuhn:When Pauli had died, I was asked to write this memorial volume. Weisskopf had asked me. Then, actually, originally I had written an...
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2 answerIt is stated in innumerous introductory histology texts that there are four basic types of tissue - epithelial, connective, muscular, and nervous. I have never come across one that provides...
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1 answerRecently, I've been looking into the life of the brilliant Norbert Wiener and the field he spawned, cybernetics. Before reading into it, I thought "cybernetics" was...
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1 answerThe universal trigonometric substitution converts a rational function in $sin(x), cos(x) $ into a rational function of a new variable $t$ by the substitution $t =...
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0 answerI had asked the following question on MSE here, and I was directed to this exchange. There is a nice solution in the comments there, but perhaps someone...
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0 answerJohn von Neumann wrote the following in his essay The Mathematician:As a mathematical discipline travels far from its empirical source,or still more, if...
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0 answerAfter Uranus was discovered and its orbit calculated, its future orbit was calculated, and its future positions as seen from Earth were calculated. And observers of Uranus began to notice...
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3 answerSome media sources say that "Cantor claimed that there would only be potential infinity, not actual infinity" In addition, the following link claims that Hilbert, Poincare, and...
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1 answerI have a question that is more related to the history of evolutionary biology rather than the science itself, namely I am interested in knowing what might have been considered...
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1 answerAccording to Weisstein's webpage it was Halley in 1693 (quoting Steinhaus); but I've also seen it attributed to Cotes, Huygens, even Gauss (eg Britannica). Wikipedia's History of...
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