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Anecdotes about famous mathematicians or physicists [closed]

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What kind of "symmetry" is the symmetric group about?

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What concept does an open set axiomatise?

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How did Hermite calculate $e^{\pi\sqrt{163}}$ in 1859?

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Example of a very simple math statement in old literature which is (verbatim) a pain to understand

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What are some examples of mathematics that had unintended useful applications much later?

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Mathematicians ahead of their time?

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About a paper of Zermelo

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Do mathematicians, in the end, always agree?

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What is the smallest unknown natural number?

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Why, historically, do we multiply matrices as we do?

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What did Alan Turing mean when he said he didn't fully understand dy/dx?

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Past open problems with sudden and easy-to-understand solutions

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Motivation of irrationality measure

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Are half of all numbers odd?

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Why did mathematicians take Russell's paradox seriously?

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What are some examples of notation that really improved mathematics? [closed]

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When the trig functions moved from the right triangle to the unit circle?

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Why does mathematical convention deal so ineptly with multisets?

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Examples of mathematical results discovered "late"

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