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Undergrad What's wrong with this solution of tan^3x?
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High School What are Integrals and what do they tell you?
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High School What is the Indefinite Integral of 1/e^x?
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Graduate Double Integration change of variables
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Graduate Is Apostol's Calculus rigorous enough for my level of understanding?
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High School When To Find Dervitives,how To Find Dervitives
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Graduate How Can the Residue Theorem Be Applied to Prove This Integral?
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Undergrad Evaluating integrals by trigonometric substitution
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Graduate Intersecting Intervals: Consistency of Families F & G
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High School How does F'(X)=lim c->0 (F(x+c)-F(X))/c gives a derivative
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Undergrad What is the Significance of Derivatives in Calculus?
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Graduate Need critique and proof of a theorem
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Graduate Vector Calculus question Div and Stokes Theorem
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Graduate What the hell are surface integrals?
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Undergrad Limits of polynomials at infinity
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Graduate Is There a Way to Compute the Unintegrateable Function e^{-x^2}?
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Graduate Proving that a real number exists in between a real number,
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Graduate Solving Complex Integral: How to Approach?
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Graduate Calculate del.r(A.r) with Constant Vector A & Distance Vector r
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Undergrad Dy/dx: must dx be the independent variable?
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Graduate Chain rule with functional derivative
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Undergrad Is this integration probelm right so far?
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Undergrad Limit of sqrt(x^2 + x) - x as x Approaches Infinity
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Undergrad Limits: Solving x^3e^(-x^2) with L'Hospital's Rule
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Undergrad Help Solving Diff. Eq. Integration: y^3 = 1/2y^2+t+C
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Graduate Why is the additional requirement in a theorem crucial?
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Graduate How Can I Correctly Solve a Line Integral for Atmospheric Scattering?
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Graduate Prove k Musicians in n Orchestras via Induction
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Undergrad Integration by parts and roots
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Graduate Differentiatiang Bessel functions
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Graduate Can Continuous Wave Values Exist with Finite Boundary Conditions?
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Graduate Solving Integral of exp{-(a*x^2+b*x+c)} from -inf to inf
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Graduate Eigenfunction for Adjoint Operstor
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Undergrad Is My Thinking Wrong About Convergent or Divergent?
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Undergrad Lim (n→∞)((-1)^n)/n: Does it Converge or Diverge?
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Undergrad How to Solve a Limit Problem with a Denominator of Zero?
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High School Derivatives and order of operations/rules
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Undergrad Can You Solve This Integration Problem with a Little Help from Trigonometry?
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Graduate How Do You Calculate the Center of Mass with Non-Constant Density Using Vectors?
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Undergrad How was the chain rule used to find the derivative of a trigonometric function?
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Undergrad The integration block in simulink
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Undergrad Proving the existence of a limit?
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Undergrad Least Upper Bound: What Is It & How to Prove It
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Graduate Integrator monotonically increasing ? R.S. Integral
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Undergrad Solving Integral: sin^3x cos^2x dx
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High School Do Logarithms play any major part in being able to do calculus?
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Undergrad Proving Parallelism of Vectors in 3-Space: Help with a Proof
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Graduate Deriving the Beta Function Integral Using Residue Theorem
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Graduate Does the Proof Verify that an Open Ball is a Neighborhood in Metric Spaces?
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Undergrad Derivative of e^(-(1/3)x^2-(1/5)y^4) ?
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Undergrad Differentiating both sides of an equation
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High School Technicality of describing where sqrt(x) is increasing
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Graduate Proof ε-δ: Epsilon Delta Proof of lim x->a of ((3x²-3a²)/(x-a)) = 6a
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Undergrad Product of two continous functions
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Graduate How much work is done by a force field along intersecting planes?
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Undergrad What is the integral of x²e^-x²?
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Undergrad Discovering the Meaning of a Jacobian in Multivariable Functions
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Undergrad Solving Limit of (x^2+sinx)/x^2: L'Hopital's Rule Not Working
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Graduate Nonstandard Analysis models using non-well-founded sets
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Undergrad Rational Functions' Asymptotes
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Graduate Is there a relationship between upper and lower bounds in an ordered set?
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Graduate What is the significance of Double Sum Decomposition in scientific research?
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Graduate Proof of lower bound of a nonempty set of real numbers
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Graduate Is Taking the 14th Derivative of cos(x^3 + 5) a Mark of a Mathematical Genius?
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Undergrad When Is the Projection of a Vector Undefined or Zero?
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Graduate Average of Log of a Function: Bounded by 1 and Convex
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High School Multivariable Calculus - Dot Products
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Undergrad Understanding the Relationship between Integration and Natural Logarithms
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Undergrad Given g(x)=xf(x), show g'(x)=f(x)+xf'(x).
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Undergrad Is every strictly increasing function onto?
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Undergrad Wrong Answer From Calculator for x^2-1 (all over) x+4
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Graduate Gradient ascent with constraints
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Graduate Proving a limit and the Order Limit Theorem
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Undergrad Intergration by Parts (IbP) problem
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Undergrad What is the critical point of xe^x?
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Graduate Is Pugh's Use of Geometry in Proving Uncountability Rigorous?
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Graduate How to prove calculus for yourself: summary
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Graduate Please give some simple examples of maps that are quasiconformal
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Undergrad Related Rates cylinder problem
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Undergrad How Fast is the Water Level Dropping in the Tank?
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Undergrad What Is g(x) in the Limit as x Approaches 3?
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Graduate Two closed subspace whose sum is not closed?
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Graduate A Kinder, Gentler, Longer L'Hospital Proof
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Graduate Interesting proof of sequence limit
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Undergrad How Do You Differentiate f(x,y) = e^(2x) * ln(x/y^2) with Respect to x?
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Undergrad What are the essential topics to learn in Calculus?
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Undergrad What is the Fundamental Vector Product for Calculating Surface Area on a Sphere?
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High School If f(x,y) = e^(x+y) is df/dx just e^(x+y)
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Undergrad Basic question on langrange multipliers
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Graduate Prove Coefficients of Complex Polynomials are Real
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Integral Properties: Real Estate Solutions
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Graduate What is the reasoning behind bounding |2/3x| instead of |3x/2| in this limit?
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Graduate Differentiable function, limits, sequence
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Undergrad How Can You Integrate sin^4(2x) Without Using the Reduction Formula?
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Graduate Question on the Cauchy Condensation test
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Undergrad Solve Integration: x^5cos(x^3) dx
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Undergrad Newton's Method for Approximating f(x,y) & g(x,y)
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Graduate How Can We Prove the Countability of Algebraic Numbers of Fixed Degree?
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Increasing/Decreasing function, no max/min
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Undergrad Solve Integral Using Substitution: Integral Question with Example
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