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The breadth-first search, a classical algorithm of Computational Graph Theory, has an interesting history of invention. According to Wikipedia, it was invented in 1945 by Michael Burke and Konrad Zu …

First let us fix the terminology. The space (1) is known in General Topology as the Golomb space. More precisely, the Golomb space $\mathbb G$ is the set $\mathbb N$ of positive integers, endowed wit …

I do not know whether this question (in history of math) is proper for MathOverflow, but I know no other places where it can be asked with a hope to obtain an answer. Reading the biography of Henry Ma …

I am interested in the history related to algebraic numbers and have two questions: Who first proved that algebraic numbers form a field? Who first proved that algebraic numbers form an algebraicall …

My question concerns the classical Desargues Theorem and its simplest version The small Desargues Theorem: Let $A$, $B$, $C$ be three distinct parallel lines and $a,a'\in A$, $b,b'\in B$, $c,c'\in C$ …

In fact, I asked this question hoping to find some appropriate name that can be legally used for naming affine spaces satisfying the small Desargues Theorem. Now I have learned that in Projective Geom …

$\DeclareMathOperator\Aut{Aut}$It is well-known that the automorphism group $\Aut(F)$ of a finite field $F$ of characteristic $p$ is cyclic of order $n$ where $|F|=p^n$. Moreover, the cyclic group $\A …

In the Wikipedia paper on Hadamard spaces, it is written that every flat Hadamard space is isometric to a closed convex subset of a Hilbert space. Looking through references provided by this Wikipedia …

I am interested in the history of the proof of Artin's Theorem (on the diassociativity of alternative rings). Question. When has Artin proved this theorem and where was it published for the first tim …