Don't have much money at the moment so I only managed to give ~π coffees
@VitaliyKaurov The Wolfram Community site seems to be using TLS 1.0 or 1.1 - this is old and insecure, and modern browsers will stop accepting those versions in the future, so it may want updating soon. (My browser wouldn't let me in today :( )
@C.E. 🤷♀️ Sometimes I think they could get Jan Poeschko to build a new forum in about a weekend, but hey. I'm happier for WL to be good than the website to be good.
@b3m2a1 Desperate to find the question in your new profile photo
@b3m2a1 Yeah. I imagine they're happy to have it outsourced as well. Though it would be nice to have a community-run forum (rather than having to pick between Wolfram's and Stack Overflows's), but I'm not gonna build it :D
Another late night screwing around in Mathematica, another time I curse SW for not caring about a dark mode
(a good one, that is, not ReverseColor which barely counts)
I don't suppose anybody knows where I might have luck finding mathematical papers published 1880-1920? It turns out I am related to a man named Oskar Lesser, who wrote some apparently important books on maths education in the early 1900s.
I have a few old letters of his dated 1898-1904 where it seems as though he was working on some geometry theorems, but my reading of old german script isn't great and it's hard to infer what's going on from context, so I was wondering if it was possible to find things he may have published at the time.
I'm no academic so I don't have access to eg university libraries :(
(afaik not the astronomer Oskar Lesser, but similar time period)
(He wrote Die Infinitesimalrechnung Im Unterrichte Der Prima, apparently a big enough deal that you can still buy it on Amazon)
Even as an academic, it's rare these days that you go physically to your library. However, I use our subscriptions to "web of science" heavily and of course the subscriptions to all the journals to get hands on the papers that are behind a paywall.
But to make a quick research for academic papers, scholar.google.com is sufficient. I checked Oskar Lesser there, but I didn't had much more luck. The same books popped up
You can search for "author:lesser-o" there and restrict the time period and you get
