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History and philosophy of mathematics, biographies of mathematicians, mathematics education, recreational mathematics, communication of mathematics.
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what mistakes did the Italian algebraic geometers actually make?
Fano's list of 3-dimensional "Fano varieties" (so named by V.A.Iskovskikh) missed an entire class, of genus 12 if I recall correctly. This list was made complete later by Iskovskikh and Mukai-Umemura. …
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A question regarding a claim of V. I. Arnold
Here is a problem which I heard Arnold give in an ODE lecture when I was an undergrad. Arnold indeed talked about Barrow, Newton and Hooke that day, and about how modern mathematicians can not calcula …
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Why didn't Vladimir Arnold get the Fields Medal in 1974?
Pontryagin wrote a book "Biography of Lev Semenovich Pontryagin, a mathematician, composed by himself". It is available online at http://www.ega-math.narod.ru/LSP/book.htm, in the original Russian. Go …
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What are examples of mathematical concepts named after the wrong people? (Stigler's law)
Chow varieties were invented by Van der Waerden (Chow was his student). And Hilbert schemes were invented by Grothendieck (who called them Hilbert schemes himself, however).