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| Dec 30, 2021 at 7:12 | history | edited | Haitao Du | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 19, 2020 at 21:45 | comment | added | whuber♦ | Wikipedia traces it to the 1840's at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_function#History, but I'm confident Euler would have studied this function. | |
| May 19, 2020 at 21:16 | answer | added | Igor F. | timeline score: 7 | |
| Apr 21, 2020 at 14:58 | comment | added | Nick Cox | As a Riccati equation, its history in pure mathematics appears to exceed its history in applications. (Different answers here underline that specifying first dates is hazardous.) . | |
| Apr 21, 2020 at 13:46 | answer | added | Lerner Zhang | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 14, 2020 at 12:00 | vote | accept | Haitao Du | ||
| Apr 9, 2020 at 3:01 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackStats/status/1248083529096990722 | ||
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| Apr 8, 2020 at 14:46 | history | edited | Haitao Du | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 8, 2020 at 14:11 | comment | added | whuber♦ | It arises in many contexts. One relatively modern answer is that it's proportional to the folded logarithm. | |
| Apr 8, 2020 at 10:39 | answer | added | Tim Mak | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 8, 2020 at 10:36 | answer | added | doubllle | timeline score: 11 | |
| Apr 8, 2020 at 9:50 | history | asked | Haitao Du | CC BY-SA 4.0 |