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Graduate How To define charts and atlases
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High School Why are polygons typically triangulated in computer graphics?
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Graduate A Question about de Rham's Theorem
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Graduate Example of cover (of a set) having finite sub-covers in collection.
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Graduate Showing the Fundamental Group of S^1 is isomorphic to the integers
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Graduate Invariant Tensors and Lorentz Transformation
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Graduate Confusion about Christoffel Symbols
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High School What is the geometric property of these 2 angles being equal?
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Graduate How Does Holonomy Relate to Curvature in Higher Dimensional Principal Bundles?
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Graduate Distance-preserving maps are compositions of rotations and translations
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Graduate How Do I Translate These French Math Terms?
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Graduate Is There a Positive Constant for a Polynomial Inequality with Two Variables?
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Graduate Embedding of the join of P3 and C4
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Graduate What Mathematical Expression Describes a Cone with a Flat Tip?
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Undergrad Broken Geometry (Cylindar) Fit Inside a Box
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Graduate Fundamental Group of the Torus-Figure 8
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Graduate How Do Projective and Affine Varieties Relate in P^n?
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Graduate Cutting a hole in the projective plane
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High School I have got next interesting geometry example :-)I have got regular
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Graduate What is the Asymptotic Volume Fraction of Randomly Distributed Spheres in a Box?
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Graduate A question about multiresolution analysis (from a topological point of view)
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Undergrad Flatland on a sphere.Find the radius
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Graduate Calculate the arc length between two points over a hyper-sphere
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Graduate Intersection point between n-vector and n-sphere
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Graduate What Are the Practical Applications of the Fourth Dimension in Analysis?
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Graduate How to use a 4x4 Matrix to translate a point in 3D space
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MHB Two circles intersecting, a lot of lines.
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Graduate Question on Jacobian determinant
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Graduate Is there a vector version of The Elements?
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Undergrad Can a Flatlander See More Than 2 Sides of a Cube at Once?
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Undergrad Circles on XY, YZ and XZ planes from a Sphere
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Graduate Does there exist a pair of interesecting lines that arent coplanar
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Graduate Question on Jacobian with function composition and inverse functions
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Graduate Power Series for Volume of Balls in Riemannian Manifold
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Graduate Understanding the Trefoil Knot and Its Function on a Torus
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Graduate What is the largest n dimensional box that can fit inside a sphere?
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Graduate How Is U(n) Embedded in O(2n) as a Subgroup?
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Graduate Real life engineering problem I or guidance
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Undergrad Deriving the equation of a tangent plane
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Graduate Charts of a torus (and other manifolds)
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Undergrad Equation to graph a 180 degree curve comprised of a radius and an ellipse
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Graduate How change from one to another coordinate system
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Graduate Orientation Forms in Different Codimension.
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Graduate Mapping Torus of a Manifold is a Manifold.
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Graduate The connection as a choice of horizontal subspace?
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Graduate Deriving the equation of points for exact fitting and shape analysis
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Graduate Archemedian Spiral Flight Path: Calculating Arc Length & Equations
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Graduate Inner product of rank 2 tensor and a vector
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Graduate What Matrix Transformation Projects a 3D Planar Shape onto the XY Plane?
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Graduate Algorithm for testing intersection of point and compound polygon
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MHB Reflecting Ray from Concave Mirror: Parabola Focus
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Graduate Generalizing the Hairy Ball Thorem - Higher Dimensions and Higher-Order Tensors
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Graduate How to design algebraic function with particular ramified covering?
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Graduate Inspiration help on nullstellensatz
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Graduate More on Diff. Forms and Distributions as Kernels
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Graduate Using Forms to Define Orientation of Curves.
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Graduate Calculating the intersection of a branching point
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Undergrad Point at which a line intersects a plane
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Undergrad Max Area of 2 Circles in Square of Side 1
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Undergrad The length of an uncoiled spring
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Graduate Covector fields - did I get them wrong?
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Graduate Geometric interpretation of metric tensor
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Graduate Understanding displacements of points by interpreting directions
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Graduate Kernels, and Representations of Diff. Forms.
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Undergrad Interpretation on the meaning of some graph theory statements
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Graduate Looking for a Theorem of Continuous Functions
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Graduate Sobolev class of loops to a compact lie Group
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Graduate Understanding 1/2 of Van Kampen's Theorem
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Graduate Hyperbolic Paraboloid and Isometry
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Graduate Riemannian connection basic question about computing
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Graduate Proving the Containment Property of Polar Cones for Sets in R^n
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Graduate Scalar product in spherical coordinates
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Graduate Scalar fields/ Scalar functions / Vector fields / Vector functions
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Graduate Finding straight line distance between an ellipsoid and a point
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MHB Spherical Harmonics easy question
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Undergrad Calculating Material Used in a Cylinder of given Thickness
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Graduate Sufficient condition for global flatness
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Graduate Weighted average of arbitrary k points from a line
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Graduate Differential Geomtery. Find the vertices the equation
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Graduate Can You Prove the Inequality in Triangles with Arbitrary Points?
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Graduate Prove that for any graph G, the connectivity is less that the minimum degree
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Graduate Confirm Mistake in Nakahara's Geometry, Topology, Physics
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Graduate Measure of the Sharpness of a curve
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Undergrad Find 3D point along the line at given distance
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MHB Compute the downwards flux of F
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Graduate What is a Liouville Isomorphism in the Context of Symplectization?
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Undergrad Finding the points of intersection of two ellipses
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Graduate Problem expanding algebraic function via Newton polygon
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High School Questions relating to asymptotes
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Graduate Algebraic Topology: Connected Sum & Reference Help
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Graduate Solenoidal and conservative fields
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Graduate Does an Orthonormal Frame Exist on a Surface with a Riemannian Metric?
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Graduate Genus of aribtrary algebraic function
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Undergrad Calculate the Normal vector to an Ellipse
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Graduate The area form of a Riemannian surface
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Undergrad FInding the area of pentagon (on x,y,z axis) using trinagles?
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Graduate How to Determine the Minor Axis of an Ellipse from Given Points?
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Graduate Confused as to what constitutes a manifold?
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High School Crazy orientation of solid oblong
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Undergrad Rotate 1 plane in 3d space to be parallel to another
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