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Is it by Gibbs? Or Boltzmann? I do not expect Maxwell. The point is, how was the textbook introduction of partition function today developed. ...
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2 answerTheir papers were published on the same issue of Nature back to back. Moreover, helix was also mentioned in Franklin's paper. So, what important insight or contribution of Watson and...
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1 answerI was taught that the Arabs introduced zero in their Arabic numerals and it was depicted as a decimal point. They got their number system from India in turn...
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2 answerIn other words, how is Aristotle's logic represented in Euclid's Elements? I have read many articles where Euclid's Elements is linked to Aristotle's logic, but I do not understand, and...
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3 answerCauchy's Rigidity theorem says that if the corresponding faces of two convex polytopes are isometric (congruent)then the polytopes are related by a (proper or improper) motion. Cauchy's biography (by...
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1 answerPreliminary note: With "Euclid" I don't mean a person but the mathematicians of the Euclidean period of which Euclid (if he had been one person) was a representative.I imagine that...
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1 answerI've been intrigued by the similarities between what Eudoxus' Theory of Proportions and Dedekind cuts. However, I wish to question this "perceived similarity" and would like to where the flaws...
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3 answerYesterday I took my time to look again into Schlesinger's essay on Gauss's contributions to analysis, and I found something new I didn't know about (so it caught my eye)...
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1 answerUntil yesterday i thought that nothing direct is known about the "Archimedes's planetarium" - an elaborate ancient planetarium based on complex gear mechanism that could represent the geocentric motions of...
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2 answerMost people are familiar with the famous "mad scientist" trope from science fiction - the scientist who is typically a loner, often self-funded from family wealth, frequently mentally...
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