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The term positive definite matrix is a standard one used in mathematics, especially in linear algebra. Are there grammatical, linguistic, or historical reasons why it was not called a...
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2 answerRecently, I came across a book about Grace Hopper where it is stated that Howard Aiken wanted her to become familiar with papers by Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage as...
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1 answerI've read in "How do they fly" by Rudolf Dvořák that the main constraint from inventing some kind of remote-controlled flying machine that could go all directions...
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1 answerAs I searched history of nomenclature of charges I got this.., Ben Franklin imagined electricity as a type of invisible fluid that could build up or be absent from a...
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0 answerPoincare wrote (english translation of the french) in 1903:``A very small cause that escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we...
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2 answerThe Wikipedia Page on Fermat numbers states that $F_5$ was "fully factored" in 1732. This appears to be the same time that Euler found that...
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1 answerIn Thm. 4, Prop. 4 of Galileo's 'Two New Sciences' (pg. 187, Crew Translation), Galileo says the following: "From a single point $B$ draw the planes $BA$ and...
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