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Who came up with the $\varepsilon$-$\delta$ definitions and the axioms in Real Analysis?

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Why is "h" used for entropy?

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Motivation for Tom Lehrer's song "Lobachevsky"?

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History of zero?

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History of the vocabulary for group extensions

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When was $\pi$ first suggested to be irrational?

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Difference between calculus and analysis

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Was there anybody before Cantor who conjectured existence of infinities of different sizes?

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What did Hilbert actually want for his second problem?

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The history of set-theoretic definitions of $\mathbb N$

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Did Zariski really define the Zariski topology on the prime spectrum of a ring?

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Does there exist a copy of Euclid's Elements with modern notation and no figures?

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Work of Ted Kaczynski

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A curious theorem by Peano

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What is "inner" about the inner product?

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On the origins of the (Weierstrass) Tangent half-angle substitution

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What is the most cited mathematical paper?

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A place to learn about math etymology?

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How much math education was typical in the 18th & 19th century?

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What is "Russian-style" mathematics?

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