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History and philosophy of mathematics, biographies of mathematicians, mathematics education, recreational mathematics, communication of mathematics.
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Tweetable Mathematics
This question is actually much older than what it appears to be. The famous fundamental anagram of calculus (Newton, 1676)
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is an anagram of the Latin
Data ae …
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Modern Mathematical Achievements Accessible to Undergraduates
The matrix formalism of self-similar groups makes the theory (and numerous examples - beginning with the groups of intermediate growth) perfectly accessible for undergrads.
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Original references for the Hall - Witt identity
The first candidates for being the "original references" are the papers by Philip Hall A contribution to the theory of groups of prime-power order [Hall1934] and by Ernst Witt Treue Darstellung Liesch …
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What happened to Suren Arakelov?
There are memoirs by Mikhail Zelikin in Russian. He knew Arakelov personally and quite explicitly describes what happened to him.
Через несколько дней произошло следующее. Был арестован Солженицы …
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A. Markov's papers?
There is a volume of collected works of Markov published in 1951 (in Russian), which is available online:
http://pyrkov.professorjournal.ru/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=dee29674-473c-4c73-a9f2-cd …
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Origin of tropical mathematics
What is nowadays called "tropical semiring" was very explicitly defined and used by Bernard Carré in his 1971 paper An algebra for network routing problems. Its abstract:
Problems involving the deter …
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John von Neumann's remark on entropy
It seems to me that it is actually the first reason put forward by von Neumann (your uncertainty function has been used in statistical mechanics under that name) that fully justifies Timothy Chow's re …
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A historical mystery : Poincaré’s silence on Lebesgue integral and measure theory?
It has nothing to do with the conflict with Borel which developed later, and one can find a pretty explicit answer in the aforementioned letters of Lebesgue to Borel.
(These letters were first publish …
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