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How one should treat M.Kline's "Mathematics. The Loss of Certainty"?

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What novel results are there in Euclidean geometry in the last 50-100 years?

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Where did Descartes write, "With me everything turns into mathematics."

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What cubic problems did Tartaglia and Fior pose to each other?

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integrating the secant function, who figured this out?

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List of proofs of non-trivial theorems which were unnoticed to be wrong for at least a few years

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Why was $\aleph$ (aleph) chosen for infinities?

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Why do trapezium and trapezoid have inverted meanings in the US?

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Why is square root by long division found so?

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Who first proved that the second-order theory of real numbers is categorical?

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Mathematical results that were generally accepted but later proven wrong?

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Fibonacci numbers modulo $p$

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A quote by Jacobi

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Connections between number theory and abstract algebra.

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Origin of the modern definition of the tensor product

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Who introduced the notation $x^2$? [closed]

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Pythagorean theorem expressed without roots in an old Tamilian (Indian) statement

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What does "Mathematics of Computation" mean?

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What is the significance of deciding the convention of $1 \text{ radian} = 180 \text{ degrees}$ over $\pi$?

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The average of the roots of a polynomial equals the average of the roots of its derivative

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