Timeline for Why was the question on the history of $y=y(x)$ put on hold?
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:58 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://mathoverflow.net/ with https://mathoverflow.net/
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| Nov 2, 2016 at 13:13 | answer | added | Todd TrimbleMod | timeline score: 4 | |
| Nov 2, 2016 at 11:17 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | On-topicness of questions on history of mathematics on MO notwithstanding, I notice that people who raise such questions are often referred to hsm.SE. | |
| Nov 2, 2016 at 10:35 | comment | added | Emil Jeřábek | The existence of hsm.SE notwithstanding, questions on history of mathematics are on-topic on MO. | |
| Nov 2, 2016 at 9:46 | comment | added | Michael Bächtold | Having looked at hsm.stackexchange for the first time right now, I'm thinking it might be better to take such a question there. But that makes me wonder if MO should not generally discourage all history questions on its site from now on. | |
| Nov 2, 2016 at 8:32 | comment | added | Michael Bächtold | @RyanBudney I agree that the comments and answers (except for the first few by Mauro Allegranzas) were taking the tread off track. But this also applies to Carlos comment: I was not asking for ways to interpret the notation, nor did I want to discuss its pros & cons. So his comment does not answer the question. I wanted to know if it is possible to identify an early source who startet this. I added a clarification before it was put on hold, but seemingly that was not enough. | |
| Nov 2, 2016 at 7:54 | comment | added | Ryan Budney | The comments seemed to be taking the thread way off course. In particular, Carlo's comment (the very first) was an excellent answer. Your original question can likely be answered, but I doubt it will be any more useful than Carlo's. | |
| Nov 2, 2016 at 2:10 | history | asked | Michael Bächtold | CC BY-SA 3.0 |