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History and philosophy of mathematics, biographies of mathematicians, mathematics education, recreational mathematics, communication of mathematics.

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When and where did Gauss say this [closed]

This quote is often attributed to Gauss: ``Die Mathematik ist die Königin der Wissenschaften, und die Arithmetik ist die Königin der Mathematik". Where and when did he say that?
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Which great mathematicians were also historians of mathematics?

Magnus wrote this together with Chandler. Ron Solomon wrote this very useful text.
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Prehistory of Gromov-hyperbolic spaces/groups

The notion of coarse curvature was very popular in the "Leningrad math school" where Gromov is from before Gromov, for example, see the works of D. Alexandrov and Toponogov. The small cancelation idea …
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