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I have been trying to identify who "H.E. Huntley", the author of The Divine Proportion (1970) actually is. By all accounts, H.E. Huntley is a pen-name of a certain "Ernie Hart", ...
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I am writing a survey on pattern-avoiding permutations: A permutation $\tau \in S_n$ is said to avoid a pattern $\sigma \in S_k$ provided that $\tau$ contains no subsequence order-isomorphic to $\...
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Were these physicists open to the idea that laws of physics (even the most fundamental ones) could have been different? So that the laws of physics of our own universe would neither be the only ...
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Where did Dirac say he can only study/work 4 hours a day? I couldn't find "four hours" or anything similar in Kragh, Dirac: A Scientific Biography or Farmelo, The Strangest Man: The Hidden ...
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I am writing a biography about John von Neumann. I can read from various sources that he did a PhD programme in ETH Zürich in mathematics (year 1926) but with minors in chemistry and experimental ...
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These two are legends in the field of Computer Science (as well as mathematics and Operations Research) but I feel like we hear so little about them. Aside from Donald Knuth's 2003 eulogy, "...
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I am interested in any information (biographical/professional/other) about S.A. Jayawardene, who was a historian of mathematics and science, possibly specializing in the Renaissance, active from the ...
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There exists the famous fine-structure constant, also called the Sommerfeld constant, introduced by Arnold Sommerfeld in 1916 that that quantifies the strength of the electromagnetic interaction ...
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I am interested in knowing something about the background of the mathematician S. M. Kerawala, the author of a 1947 article in the Bulletin of the Calcutta Mathematical Society, "Poncelet Porism ...
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It is written in lots of places that Eudoxus of Cnidus travelled to Egypt, more precisely to Heliopolis, to pursue his study of Astronomy and Mathematics. For instance the Encyclopædia Britannica ...
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Sometimes I wonder about why certain scientists and mathematicians suddenly veered off in a different direction. Here are some examples of people who suddenly took a turn with regards to their career ...
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A recent article: Joseph Howlett ''The Man Who Stole Infinity'', Quanta Magazine, Feb. 25, 2026 appeared with the abstract: Georg Cantor proved that there are different sizes of infinity and changed ...
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In Steen & Seebach's Counterexamples in Topology, item 125 is Gustin's sequence space. It's the work of one W. Gustin who published Countable Connected Spaces in Bull. Amer. Math. Soc in 1946, and ...
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I would like to ask a question about this work (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/31226579_That_von_Neumann_Did_Not_Believe_in_a_Physical_Collapse) which was cited in this encyclopedia on Many-...
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I am making a biography of well renowned physicists and their views in some of the problems in theoretical physics Israeli physicist Yakir Aharonov is one of them and concerning the many worlds ...

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