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Examples of Mathematics in Court

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Proof of Euler's Theorem without abstract algebra?

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what is the definition of Mathematics ? [closed]

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History of dot product and cosine

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"L'Hôpital's rule" vs. "L'Hospital's rule"?

Are infinitesimals dangerous?

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Motivation for/history of Jacobi's triple product identity

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Why are turns not used as the default angle measure?

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How did the notation "ln" for "log base e" become so pervasive?

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What did Gauss think about infinity?

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Image of a math problem that was stated in Cuneiform, Arabic, Latin and Finally in modern math notation

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Motivation of Vieta's transformation

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Where did mathematicians learn how to do truth tables?

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Who invented $\vee$ and $\wedge$, $\forall$ and $\exists$?

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Importance of rigor

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How small is an infinitesimal quantity?

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What was Ramanujan's solution?

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Euler's errors?

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What is the original source of "fiber" in mathematics?

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Who named "Quotient groups"?

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