General Math Forum

Join in expert discussion on general math topics that are not applicable to the specific categories. This includes topics are usually high school math level. Homework help is available.

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Problem-Solving Strategy for Dynamics Problems

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High School List of Online Calculators for Math, Physics, Earth and Other Curiosities

  • fresh_42
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Graduate What Topics Do These Math FAQs Cover?

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Undergrad Is infinity a necessary concept?

  • FermisPairOfDucks
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Undergrad Descartes’ Geometry of Square Roots

  • bob012345
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Undergrad Meaning of division by non-whole real numbers

  • logicgate
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Undergrad Solving the chess game (quantum computer wise)

  • loop quantum gravity
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An intuition I had about infinite numbers -- Is it valid?

  • mr3000
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High School Having trouble understanding the incompleteness theorem

  • BadgerBadger92
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Insights AI Enriched Problem Solving

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Undergrad Can anyone solve this age problem?

  • Curious Kev
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High School Why does continuity still feel weird?

  • RicoGerogi
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Undergrad Limit behaviour of Fibonacci sequence

  • PeroK
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High School Geometry Puzzle: Cut The Figure to Make Two Identical Parts

  • bob012345
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Graduate Is my reasoning sound for challenging this exploratory analysis?

  • mattmaci
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High School Kilometers to Miles Numerology

  • kuruman
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High School Does this equation (Einstein’s field equations in general relativity) equal 12?

  • BadgerBadger92
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Undergrad The natural numbers and logical consequences of them

  • mr3000
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Undergrad Semi-Circles Within a Circle

  • bob012345
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Undergrad Why should we need to re-prove theorems that have been proved already?

  • Mike_bb
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High School Ant on a stretchy rope puzzle

  • DaveC426913
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Undergrad Is this proof "by contradiction" or "by contrapositive"?

  • Hill
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Undergrad Infinity and 0 (null set) do not exist

  • MDH72
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Undergrad A Very Gentle Approach to Thinking About Hyperspheres

  • bob012345
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High School Multiplication and Division by Numerical "Trituration"

  • dom_quixote
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High School Distance between points on two circles

  • LucKy
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High School Four Circle Problem

  • bob012345
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Challenge MIT Announces the Largest Collection of Olympiad Math Problems

  • jedishrfu
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Graduate A neat fact regarding Cauchy problems for infinite systems

  • wrobel
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High School Example of a model for a function

  • Ssnow
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High School This One Moved Me

  • bhobba
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High School Abel Prize awarded, 2026, to Gerd Faltings

  • WWGD
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Graduate About a natural extension of Collatz conjecture

  • coquelicot
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High School Potato paradox

  • Gavran
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High School Three Squares Problem

  • bob012345
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Undergrad Solving ##a^b## and ##b^a## via the Lambert Function

  • jedishrfu
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Undergrad Comparing ##a^b## and ##b^a##

  • PeroK
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Undergrad Three Circle Problem

  • bob012345
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Graduate A global version of the implicit function theorem

  • wrobel
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Geometric Game: Fun With Matches (Safe!)

  • bob012345
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Undergrad What is the most impactful way of introducing Laplace transforms?

  • matqkks
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Undergrad Computable sequence of rationals with a noncomputable limit

  • Hill
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High School The parallel axiom, Stillwell's "Reverse Mathematics"

  • Hill
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Graduate Open problems and suggestions of great mathematical journals

  • V9999
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Undergrad Find the Number of Triangles

  • bob012345
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High School Area of Overlapping Squares

  • bob012345
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Insights What Exactly is Dirac’s Delta Function? - Insight

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Undergrad Trigonometry problem of interest

  • Charles Link
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High School More similar triangle problems

  • DaveC426913
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Undergrad Polynomial vs. Exponential time

  • senmeis
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Undergrad There are only finitely many primes

  • martinbn
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Undergrad Midpoint(s) of the unbounded number line

  • tomwilliam
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High School Arithmetic and our place value system

  • mark2142
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High School Can Six Pencils Be Arranged to Each Touch the Other Five?

  • bob012345
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Undergrad Video on imaginary numbers and some queries

  • PainterGuy
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High School Imaginary Pythagoras

  • DaveC426913
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High School Happy Pythagorean Day!

  • Astronuc
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Insights Fermat's Last Theorem

  • fresh_42
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Undergrad Useless continued fraction for 1

  • jostpuur
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Undergrad Proving Newton's forward difference interpolation formula

  • PLAGUE
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Undergrad Geometry problem of interest with a 3-4-5 triangle

  • Charles Link
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High School What could prove this wrong? I'm having a dispute with friends

  • ducknumerouno
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Graduate RIP Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (1923-2025)

  • robphy
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High School Videos of 4D Die and Sphere

  • Hornbein
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Graduate Article about 17 year-old math talent

  • jasonRF
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Undergrad The Mathematical Wizard, A House's Windows, And Solar Flux

  • Young101
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Graduate Lectures on integral invariants and Hamiltonian equations

  • wrobel
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Insights Fixing Things Which Can Go Wrong With Complex Numbers

  • PAllen
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Graduate Is this Recursive Pattern in the Collatz Sequence Known?

  • MrHellmet
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Undergrad Why fixed point iteration of ##x^3 = 1-x^2## doesn't converge when ##x_0= 0##

  • PLAGUE
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High School Excel: converting a 3-ish week count into a monthly count

  • DaveC426913
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High School Geometry Puzzle with 20 points in a cross pattern

  • bob012345
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High School What is the deepest/most impactful statement that you have ever seen?

  • spaceWizard9000
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Undergrad Modeled PF Trophies

  • AlexB23
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High School Solving equations but getting an identity - what mistakes were made?

  • farfromdaijoubu
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High School About a definition: What is the number of terms of a polynomial P(x)?

  • littlemathquark
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High School "Land capture" graph paper game

  • DaveC426913
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High School How do you multiply fractions again? My brain just froze 😅

  • goodcomfort
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Undergrad Can Angular Velocity Accurately Control Ragdoll Limbs in Game Physics?

  • MadAce
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Undergrad ##x\lt y \lt z## positive integer numbers and if ##\dfrac 1x+\dfrac 1y+\dfrac 1z=\dfrac 13##

  • littlemathquark
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High School How Many Straight Lines to Connect an N by M Array of Points in a Closed Loop?

  • bob012345
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High School The Pitcher's Mound

  • Hornbein
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High School Is It Better to Run or Walk in the Rain?

  • Pikkugnome
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Undergrad How were "e" and "pi" found?

  • mayflowers
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Undergrad How was this substitution possible?

  • InDireNeedOfHelp
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High School Are there English names for these formulas? (binomial formulas)

  • Trysse
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High School 1lb cube of 99% pure copper?

  • Coulin
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High School Which conditions should I check to see if a quadrilateral is a square?

  • murshid_islam
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Graduate !?Puzzle?! -Possible Clue- Split the Difference

  • Andrew153
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High School How is it that law of sines does not work in this exercise?

  • mcastillo356
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High School How to prove this for every Arithmetic Progression?

  • tellmesomething
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High School Given an equation, find the value of this expression

  • littlemathquark
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Happy Pi Day!

  • diogenesNY
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High School Understanding the Pythagorean Theorem

  • wrong thunder
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Undergrad Billard balls on table

  • littlemathquark
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Undergrad How is the Euclid Math Contest marked?

  • Euthenia
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High School Estimating ##\pi## with darts

  • jack action
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Undergrad Exploring Interesting Mathematical Puzzles

  • wrong thunder
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Undergrad Can I add any number of zeros to 0.00 ... 1?

  • nmz
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High School Sine Multiplication

  • Vilhjalmur Haldorson
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(Seemingly) Random Sequences

  • Monoxdifly
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