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What was Klein working on when he "replaces his Riemann surface by a metallic surface"?

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Where did the inverse function notation "$f^{-1}$" come from?

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how exactly did calculus change our understanding of the world?

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What is the "Principle of permanence"?

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How did the Symmetric group and Alternating group come to be named as such?

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Why do we notate the greatest common divisor of $a$ and $b$ as $(a,b)$?

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How to Axiomize the Notion of "Continuous Space"?

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Examples of open problems solved through short proof

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Good (Auto)Biographies of von Neumann and other physicists/mathematicians

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Indian claims finding new cube root formula

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Why do we consider prime numbers important, and what are their applications other than number theory in pure math?

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Any book on major (recent) math discovery (results) in an easy understanding way?

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Did Landau prove that there is a prime on $\bigl(x,\frac65x\bigr)$?

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Why is the argument on the right?

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Origins of the name "Q" and "R" for cofibrant and fibrant replacement functors.

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Isaac Newton did number theory?!

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Original Formulation of Hilbert's 14th Problem

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What fonts or typefaces were commonly used in old (pre-1950) mathematics literature?

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What meaning did Riemann assign to $dx$?

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Fibonacci, compositions, history

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