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Graduate Rotating vectors on a unit sphere
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Undergrad What is a Unitary Ball and How Do Different Metrics Shape Its Form?
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Graduate Parallel Transport: Does Quadrilateral Close Without Torsion?
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Graduate Is \(\nabla \times (\phi \nabla \phi) = 0\) for a Differentiable Scalar Field?
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Graduate Ostensible Contradiction b/w Continuity & Cartan's Magic Formula
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Graduate Trace - Integration - Average - Tensor Calculus
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MHB It is given that the lines intersect. Find the value of a.
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Graduate Relations Involving the Directional Cosines
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Graduate Maths Video：Visible Fibre Bundle
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Graduate Physics Quantity Corresponding to Christoffel
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Graduate How Can You Prove an Atlas Is Maximal?
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Graduate Good treatment of Affine Geometry?
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Graduate How to find fractal dimension of Gosper Island
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Graduate RElation of partial differential operator and Basis vector
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Graduate Computing the Modular Group of the Torus
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Graduate Continuity of real portion of cosine variant of 3d fractals
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Graduate Topology of the diffeomorphism group
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Graduate Intuition for Parallel Transport
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Undergrad A 'simple' vector problem - where a line meets a plane
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Graduate Homeomorphism between R and {0}xR
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Graduate Circumference of a circle in Poincare Half Plane
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Undergrad Interior angles of polygon on a sphere
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Graduate Understanding the Fibre Bundle Structure of Mobius Band
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Graduate DG - Clifford Algebra / Differential Forms
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Vertices position relative to a Quad
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Graduate Cohomology of Z^+ and Infinite Dimensional de Rham Cohomology
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Graduate Squaring the Square -> Cubing the Rectangular Prism
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Graduate How to Prove the Riemann Curvature Tensor Equation?
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Graduate Homology of formally infinite chains
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Graduate Why do manifolds require a Riemannian metric?
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Graduate Coordinate based vs non-coordinate based differential geometry
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Undergrad Why Convert Equations to Parametric Form?
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Graduate Mean Curvature at Extremum Points on a Closed Surface
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Graduate Different approches to Geometry
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Undergrad [Help] Genus: Having difficulty to fully understand it.
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Undergrad Robust Algorithm to Order Parallel Polylines
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Graduate Topological dimension of the image of a smooth curve in a manifold
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Ouroboros Ball: Meaning & Image
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Graduate Euclidean geometry and complex plane
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Graduate Cayley-Klein Geometries and physics
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Graduate Are My Intuitions on Covariance and Contravariance Correct?
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Graduate Can a 4-D Hypercube be projected onto 3-space?
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Graduate Question for geometers: How to describe this problems of this kind?
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Graduate How to simulate a random walk on a sphere
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Graduate Drive a complex field, get something like torsion?
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Graduate Spherical Pythagorean theorem - finding length of longer side
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Graduate Why does f(f^-1(E)) $\subset$ E?
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Graduate Basic diff. geometry question - Gradient of F
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Undergrad Finding the distance between a plane and a point using the normal
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Undergrad Assuming Complex Shape a Simple Shape. What is this called?
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MHB Perpendicular vectors, triangle, tetrahedron
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Graduate Simple Geometry Question about a Complex Situation -Spherical/3D cartesian
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Graduate Understanding Differential Manifolds and Local Topologies in n-Dimensions
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Graduate What are the contents of the Differential Geometry Library?
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Graduate Antisymmetric connection (Torsion Tensor)
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Undergrad Show two parrallelograms have same area
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Graduate What's algebraic geometry good for?
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Graduate Understanding the Inverse of a Fiber Bundle Projection Map
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Graduate Need help understanding the pushforward
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Undergrad Finding the Minor and major axis lenths of an ellipse from conjugate diameters
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Undergrad Ellipse inside a circle - intersection
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Graduate A geometric property of a map from points to sets?
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High School Can I Prove That Rectangle ABCD and Square BFGH Have the Same Area?
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High School Solving SIN, COS, TAN with a TI-30XA Calculator
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Undergrad Prove similarity (leading to a Pyth. proof)
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Undergrad Optimal Placement of Water Fountain in a City: Solving for Equidistant Points
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Graduate Optimisation along a curve on a surface
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Undergrad For what angles can the exact value of all trigonometrig ratios be found?
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Graduate Is R mod 2pi a Compact Manifold?
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Undergrad Algorithm for cutting a polygon into specific shapes
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Undergrad Expressing cartesian unit vectors in terms of spherical unit vectors
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Graduate Finding surface area of cone in spherical coordinates
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Graduate What Is the Relationship Between the Lie-Algebra of SO(3,1) and SU(2)?
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Undergrad Are spheres isotropic and cubes anisotropic?
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Undergrad Wire sag calculation Catenary?
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High School Radius of Earth at specific angle,
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Undergrad Finding the (x, y, z) of a point on a sphere
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Graduate Cohomology with compact support
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Graduate Very elementary differential geometry questions
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Undergrad Calculating 3D Vector Resultant - Suneyna
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Graduate Why Does a=dB Imply ∫a=0 on Compact Manifolds?
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Graduate View Tensors as Multi-Variable Functions?
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Graduate Question regarding Einstein's summation convention
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Undergrad Determining distance from Focus to Point on Parabola
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High School Polygons can be designated as N-gons. What about vertices?
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Undergrad Angles between normals at 2 points on a surface
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Graduate Hi all,Let λ>0 and define an equivalence relation on
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Undergrad Find Length of Line Segment Connecting Center & Point of Ellipse
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Graduate Surfaces with Same Gaussian Curvature: Hedi's Ques.
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Graduate Commutation property of covariant derivative
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Graduate Mobius strips and similar manifolds
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Graduate Projection of a point onto a line in 3-space.
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Graduate A Conceptual Question on de Rham cohomology.
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Graduate Book on Curvature wrong or am I confused
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Graduate Non-embedded Manifolds: How do they happen
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Graduate Spot the error (circumference of ellipse)
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Graduate Principal bundles with connections
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Graduate How is the Ricci Tensor Derived from the Ricci 1-Form?
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Graduate Proving Theorem 51.3 in Munkres 2e Edition on Homotopy Paths
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Undergrad Dot product (scalar product) of 2 vectors: ABcos[itex]\theta[/itex]
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