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How did Cole factor $2^{67}-1$ in 1903?

"Epicycles" (Ptolemy style) in math theory?

Are there any algebraic geometry theorems that were proved using combinatorics?

History of $\frac d{dt}\tan^{-1}(t)=\frac 1{1+t^2}$

Why is a matrix pencil called a pencil?

Discovery and Study of Conic Sections in Ancient Greece

Sierpinski's construction of a non-measurable set

Von Neumann's consistency proof

Who first noticed that Stirling numbers of the second kind count partitions?

Why have mathematicians used differential equations to model nature instead of difference equations