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History and philosophy of mathematics, biographies of mathematicians, mathematics education, recreational mathematics, communication of mathematics.
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How did the refereeing system of Gösta Mittag-Leffler's Acta Mathematica function from 1882 ...
Looking over the following references, I believe that they contain some of what is being asked after:
Nickerson, Sylvia (2012). Referees, publisher’s readers and the image of mathematics in ninete …
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Thurston's senior thesis at New College
I've emailed you a pdf copy of "A Constructive Foundation for Topology" by Bill Thurston (June 14, 1967; New College Senior Thesis; submitted to Roger Renne).
In consideration of the comments above, …
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Why is Gauss credited with this connection?
The short answer is we call it the Gauss–Manin connection because that's what Grothendieck called it. The name is attributed to Grothendieck in two early, seminal pieces: namely, Katz's thesis and a s …
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"'Category' was defined in order to define 'functor', which was defined in order to define '...
CW since some of the recent posts on MO have required little more than googling.
Prior to the book you mentioned, MacLane attributed this saying to Peter Freyd in:
MacLane, S. (1965). Categorical a …
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The half-life of a theorem, or Arnold's principle at work
(Not quite a theorem, but an interesting problem.) In an earlier MO question I wondered:
Given $x_1 \leq \ldots \leq x_{2n + 1}$ with each $x_i \in \mathbb{R}$ (or $\mathbb{C}$), suppose that for …
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Negative impact of wrong or non-rigorous proofs
First, three possible areas of damage (though there are surely more):
Subsequent results that make use of these "proofs" (especially when the claim is not true);
Using the methods of the incorrect …
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Origin of the theorem on the existence of the smallest field of definition of an affine variety
I suspect that this theorem is indeed due to Weil.
"Foundations of Algebraic Geometry" by Weil was published in 1946, but the 1944 paper "Some Properties of Ideals in Rings of Power Series" by Claud …
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Who named it the Snake Lemma?
I suspect the name just arose naturally (for obvious reasons) but that it would be tough to trace back to any single person. After Cartan-Eilenberg proved it in 1956 (Homological Algebra, p.40) the fi …
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When was the continuum hypothesis born?
Since your question includes the reference-request tag, I would point you towards the following two sources as well (also written by Moore):
Moore, G. H. (1988). The origins of forcing, Logic Colloqu …
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Similarities between Post's Problem and Cohen's Forcing
Remark: I have since learned that G.H. Moore addresses this question in the third reference listed at the end of this post, beginning on p. 157 in which he cites a letter from Kreisel to Gödel dated 4 …
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Origin of the term "generic" in set theory
In trying to trace the history of forcing in an earlier MO question, I came across G.H. Moore's The origins of forcing. I think you can find in Moore's piece an answer to your question, too. On p. 164 …
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