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

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Which great mathematicians were also historians of mathematics?

Armand Borel wrote several essays on the history of Lie groups and algebraic groups that were collected and published as a book.
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Mathematicians with both “very abstract” and “very applied” achievements

Raoul Bott. The Bott-Duffin theorem, which is essentially the result of Bott's doctoral thesis (in electrical engineering; the director was Richard Duffin), gives a constructive proof that a positive- …
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Which mathematical ideas have done most to change history?

Every time I see a question like this I am reminded of something V.I. Arnold wrote, which I take the liberty of quoting here: All mathematics is divided into three parts: cryptography (paid for …
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