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What is the legacy of Bourbaki?
soft-question
math-history
book-recommendation
Is there any mathematician who felt guilty for one of his math discoveries ever?
reference-request
soft-question
math-history
mathematicians
Is Hilbert's second problem about the real numbers or the natural numbers?
logic
math-history
Who first explicitly noted that second-order logic is unaxiomatizable?
logic
math-history
Who was V. Viskovatov?
math-history
Estimating the "size" of the mathematical research literature
reference-request
math-history
Could Euclid have proven that real number multiplication is commutative?
real-analysis
geometry
euclidean-geometry
math-history
real-numbers
Tensor Products and Von Neumann's Direct Multiplication
abstract-algebra
vector-spaces
modules
tensor-products
math-history
Why are $x$ and $y$ such common variables in today's equations? How did their use originate?
notation
math-history
Volumes of cones, spheres, and cylinders
calculus
geometry
math-history
Exactly who popularized the modern definition of domain and codomain of functions?
math-history
philosophy
When and where the concept of valid logic formula was defined?
logic
math-history
philosophy
Pick the right notation for calculus!
calculus
derivatives
soft-question
notation
math-history
Original author of an exponential generating function for the Bernoulli numbers?
special-functions
math-history
bernoulli-numbers
Ramanujan's False Claims
reference-request
math-history
big-list
Any surviving contemporary manuscripts by ancient mathematicians?
soft-question
math-history
mathematicians
Historical meaning and usage of determinant
matrices
math-history
determinant
History of $f \circ g$
functions
notation
math-history
What was the planned topic of Gödel's second paper on incompleteness?
logic
math-history
incompleteness
Why did we settle for ZFC?
logic
set-theory
math-history
philosophy
foundations
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