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Create Cool Shapes with MS Paint: Math & Fun?

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Graduate What is the meaning of the shorthand notation used in dynamical systems?

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Undergrad Difference between isomorphism and equality in graph theory?

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Graduate Time-dependent Riemannian metric

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Graduate Nonzero exact 1-form implies foliation?

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Undergrad How do you construct the pattern of a dragonfly wing using the golden ratio?

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Graduate Simple-Connectedness in Complex Plane: Def. in Terms of Riemann Sphere.

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Graduate Characteristic Homology Classes

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Graduate Homotopy extension property for CW pairs (Hatcher)

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Graduate Homology and Integration; Req. for Proof.

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Graduate Connected Sum of Orientable Manifolds is Orientable

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Graduate Special sequences in a product metric space

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Graduate Bounding Pairs of Dehn Twists are Trivial

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Graduate Can A Tensor Multiplied by 0 Produce a Null Tensor?

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High School Opposite of Polygon: Open Shapes & Names

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Graduate Basic Confusion: Genus, Homology (Exm of Torus)

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Graduate Proving Constant Angle of Tangent Lines to a Curve with y=0 and z=x

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Graduate Is the Transversal Intersection of Manifolds a Manifold?

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Undergrad Finding Tangent Lines to Two Circles

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Graduate Volume of partial ellipsoid cut by plane

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Graduate Desargues Theorem Proof Using Homogeneous Coordinate

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Graduate Calculating Surface Area Perturbations in n-Sphere Theory

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Graduate Metric field and coordinate system

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Graduate Do Charts of a Smooth Manifold Always Overlap?

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Graduate Law of Sines (Elliptic, Hyperbolic, Euclidean)

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Graduate What is the proof for the statement about facets in a simplex triangulation?

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Graduate What is the Universal Cover of the Figure-8?

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Graduate Why is homology isomorphic to reduced homology plus Z?

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Graduate Why chern number must be an integer?

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Graduate What Are 4-vectors and Relativistic Tensors?

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Graduate Product of Two Levi-Civita Symbols in N-dimensions

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Graduate Dihedral angles for expanded icosidodecahedron.

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Graduate Get Lorentzian Spherically Symmetric Metric to Sylvester Form

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Undergrad Basic triangle plane geometry problem - impossible?

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Graduate Basic thing of Conic in Projective Geometry

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Graduate What are Calabi-Yau Manifolds?

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Graduate What is the definition of Lie derivatives?

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Graduate Uncertain about premise for proof.

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Graduate Understanding Groupoids: Axioms & Difference from Groups

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Graduate Proving Non-Decomposability of Wedge Product in Higher Dimensional Vector Spaces

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Graduate Time Dependent Semi-Major & Semi-Minor Axes in Ellipse Equation

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Graduate Transformation to get a metric to diagonal form

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Graduate Equation of Curve Using Arc Length and Two Points

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Graduate Optimal Number of Charts for Smooth Manifolds in Dimension 2

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Graduate Understanding Objective Derivatives in Continuum Mechanics: A Simplified Guide

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Graduate Trying to study Tensors (but )

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Graduate Metric Tensors for 2-Dimensional Spheres and Hyperbolas

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Undergrad Convention in parametric equation of parabola.

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Graduate Christoffel Symbols - Gauge Fields

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Graduate What is the Name for the Linear Mapping f* and How is it Proven?

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Graduate Calculating the killing vector fields for axial symmetry

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Graduate What are the key concepts of 4D Knot Theory and Reidermeister Moves?

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Undergrad Calculating the dimensions of an arc

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Graduate Symmetric Part of a Mixed (1,1) Tensor

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Graduate Relations of an affine space with R^n , and the construction of Euclidean space

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Graduate Determining the orientation of ellipsoids after 2 rotations

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Graduate Complement of a Handlebody also a Handlebody?

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Graduate Can embedding a manifold in a higher dimension space have drawbacks?

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Graduate Local Trivialization in Covering Spaces

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Graduate Prove that diffeomorphisms are between manifolds with the same dimension

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Graduate Codimension k Stratum: A Manifold with Corners

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Undergrad Determine angle of intersecting lines inside a circle

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Graduate Covariant derivative vs Gauge Covariant derivative

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Graduate How Does A Strain Tensor Transform?

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Graduate Is the Pushforward of a Lie Bracket the Lie Bracket of the Pushforwards?

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Graduate Cup Product and Representability

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Graduate Another form of cubic folium equation

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Graduate Expansion of the commutator of two vector fields

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Graduate Action of Lie Brackets on vector fields multiplied by functions

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Graduate Calculating Mass of a Subset in SO(n) Using Definite Integrals

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Graduate Curve Parametrization: Minimum Parameters for Unique Point Specification

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Graduate Question about Stokes' Thm and Boundaries of Surfaces

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Graduate Is a (smooth) manifold allowed to have different dimensions in different points.

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Graduate Geometry of Physics: Study w/o Math Background? - Theodore Frankel

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Graduate Looking for Gauss-Bonnet counterexample

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Graduate Hyperbolic Function with Asymmetric Asymptotes

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Graduate Interpretiing the Dolbeault operators

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High School Finding radius given three points?

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Graduate What Geometry Emerges from a Non-Standard Induced Connection?

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Graduate Symplectic Geometry: Learn, Understand & Expert Articles/Books

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Graduate What is the angle between star A, B, and C on the celestial sphere?

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Graduate What Sets Delta-Complexes Apart from Simplicial Complexes?

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Graduate Solving Laplace's Equation with Covariant Derivative

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High School (Hopefully)Very quick volume calculation question

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Graduate How Does Affine Geometry Define the Join of Subspaces?

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Undergrad Special integration of Sphere Volume

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Graduate Parabolic Coordinates & Cartesian Coordinates - 1-1 Mapping

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Graduate First fundamental form and squared arc length element

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Undergrad What Are Affordable and Beginner-Friendly Books on Tensor Calculus?

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Graduate Orthonormal basis => vanishing Riemann curvature tensor

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Graduate Question about grad f on the x-y plane

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Graduate How Can Differential Forms Be Used to Compute Areas and Volumes?

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Undergrad Arc of a cylinder - would appreciate help

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Graduate Minimal Surface: Is X a Minimal Surface?

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Graduate Find a constrained equilateral inner triangle of a triangle

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Graduate How Do You Compute the Pullback of a Differential Form in Flanders' Text?

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Graduate Convexity in the real projective plane?

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High School How to measure perimeter without pi?

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Graduate Counter Intuitive result for Surface area of Helical Ribbon

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Graduate Question about curvilinear coordinates

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