Unanswered Questions
15 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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How should we celebrate our birthday?
In three weeks, History of Science and Mathematics Stack Exchange will turn one year old. Congratulations on everyone who worked hard to make our first year in beta a success.
How should we mark the ...
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Let's make our own site promotion ad!
This is a spin-off of ManishEarth's earlier meta post,
Make some community ads!
What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements that will
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2019: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, ...
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Our totally unofficial official-and-rather-belated 100-day checkup
Two months ago, I wrote up this post:
Our totally unofficial 30-day checkup
In it, I gave our site stats (available here). We're at about the same levels, 70 days later. That might seem discouraging....
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2018: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, ...
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Feeds for suitable questions from other sites in chat?
Could perhaps adding feeds from hsm-related questions from other Stack Exchange sites into chat be useful? I could, for example, imagine ho.history-overview tag from MathOverflow, math-history tag ...
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Event suggestion: A history of mathematics and future direction panel discussion?
So recently, I was pondering about historical connections of subjects, such as how concepts, ideas and experiments done in history change the course of humanity as they open new doors to exploration ...
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Is this question no longer 'too broad'
I have edited my question How did prisoners of war discover scientific breakthroughs while interned?, which currently has 3 close votes as being 'too broad'.
The question now focuses on how ...
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Criteria for considering questions 'duplicates' seem to need improvement
Repeatedly I have noticed that questions on HSM stack exchange are getting closed as 'duplicates' when it is at least highly arguable that they are anything but duplicates.
The need for improved ...
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Closure of “How Old is the pythagorean theorem?”
Can someone supply more clarity on why this question has been re-closed?
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Tag suggestion: natural history
I have a question about my History of Science and Mathematics Stack Exchange post: What are other ancient encyclopaedic texts like Pliny's “Naturalis Historia” that were available to medieval ...
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What is meant specifically by “history” in history of science and mathematics?
So I recently asked the following:
What did Sommerfeld mean by Bohr's magic wand?
While I am aware of possible vulgarity. I try my best not to divulge into it. However, after the comment "I'm ...
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Why can't I vote this answer?
Why it took an army of physicists, working on a huge complex, so long to produce a working nuclear device, while it seems so easy in theory?
The vote buttons on this accepted answer is grey out, ...
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What has happened to the logo?
Is anyone else able to see the logo of the site?
I can't. I only see a white bar...
Did something happen to it?
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Why was my answer regarding the history of the concept of a tensor deleted?
The question referred to is here
The OP asked for:
Were there other related definitions defined around this time?
How has today's definition of a tensor changed compared to its beginnings?
My focus ...
