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I was reading Stillwell's Mathematics and its History, where Lagrange's theory of quadratic forms is synoptically presented, and I was wondering of what are the direct predecessors...
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1 answerVolume 5 of Gauss's works contains a section which includes "Essays on various objects in mathematical physics". Just to emphasize the importance of this section, i'll mention that it includes,...
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1 answerAccording to this article Kolmogorov published a paper in 1925 in which he attempted to formalize Brouwer’s intuitionistic mathematics.In that paper there are the following logical...
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0 answerAn incident in the negotations of the Sixth Crusade is described as Frederick II asking help from Arab scholars with some mathematical problems:... and...
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2 answerI understand that they invented calculus independently at roughly the same time, but why do we use Leibniz's terminology/notation rather than Newton's? For example, why don't we use "fluxion" and...
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2 answerIn general relativity, it is common to use the comma notation for partial derivatives $$frac{partial g_{munu}}{partial x_rho} = g_{munu_,rho}$$ Where did this notation first appear? Was it known in...
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0 answerI was reading a wikipedia article about communication complexity and it seems to me that it bears some resemblance to Kolmogorov complexity.Was the...
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1 answerI recently stumbled upon this text about Yao's algorithm for the minimum spanning tree (MST) and I was wondering if there are some preceding...
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2 answerIt seems to me that the ancient Greeks knew that geographic location affected the apparent position of the sun in sky but given the lack of rapid travel or communications...
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1 answerAccording to wikipedia Euler came up with Venn-like diagrams well before Venn but Lull and Leibnitz came up with pictorial representations of set relations...
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