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Examples of when the professional scientists or mathematicians were wrong, but the nonprofessionals were right

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Which physicists died very young or in a tragic way?

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Did Shoenfield obtain corner quotes from Kreisel?

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Was a vector "an arrow with magnitude and direction" at the beginning, or did the abstraction happen early on?

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A question concerning the reception of Rosser's proof

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How did we go from Principia Mathematica to Lambda calculus?

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Where can I find the actual first order formulation of ZFC Axioms?

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How and when did the set brackets disappear from standard accounts of classical set theory?

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Set Theory, onto and into their relation to spoken language definitions

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Why is the action from the principle of least action traditionally denoted $S$?

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Seeking translations of Lobachevsky’s “Geometriya”

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