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Graduate Defining curvilinear coordinates without a Cartesian reference frame

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Undergrad How many rectangles fit in a triangle?

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Undergrad Deriving the Spherical Unit Vectors

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Graduate Can a Generalized Prismatoid Volume be Solved by Axiomatic Means?

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Graduate Understanding Lie Groups: A Simple Definition

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Undergrad How to get formula for focus and directrix

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Undergrad Finding circle radius tangent to one side of a right triangle

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Graduate Maximum non-adjacent vertices of an n-cube on a hyperplane

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Graduate Classifying Manifolds: Why Celebrated?

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High School Do we know everything about 2d geometry?

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Graduate Contraction of the canonical symplectic form by vertical vectors

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Undergrad Applying Ceva's theorem to concurrent lines from a triangle's incircle

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Graduate Hi,i want to understand how fundamental group of a closed oriented

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Undergrad Best Fit for 2-D Shapes in Larger Shape?

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Graduate Why is a parametric curve's derivative not a vector field?

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Undergrad Latus rectum for the non-mathematician

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Graduate Why is a vector field with curl 0 not conservative everywhere?

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Graduate Basis for tangent space and cotangent space

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Graduate Topology of flat spatime -metric?

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Undergrad What is the direction of the curl of a vector A? If y-component of

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Undergrad Creating a Vector Field from a 3D Parametric Equation

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Undergrad What is the Meaning of Tangential and Normal Components in Vector Analysis?

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Graduate How to Determine if a Point Lies Inside a Tilted and Translated Ellipse?

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Undergrad Graphing Particle Motion in 3D on iPad App

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Graduate Bachman's line integral versus classical line integral

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Graduate Support Mapping of an Arbitrary Ellipsoid

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Undergrad How to Calculate Angle of Rotation on Multiple Axes?

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Graduate Formal linear combinations in Bachman's differential forms

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Graduate Problems like four-colour theorem

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Graduate Lie Algebra of the reals with addition

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Undergrad Is Transitivity Applicable in Proving Subset Relations Among Sets A, B, and C?

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Undergrad Show sphere slices equal cylinder slices outside a cone

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Graduate Visualizing x(u,v): A Solution Requested

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High School The 3D modeler, newbie and odd questions box

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Graduate Some confusion regarding nomenclature

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High School A Binary Operator Symbol Identification.

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Undergrad Can solving a Rubik's cube be expressed in mathematical terms?

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Graduate Why is the Fundamental Group of Lens Space L(p,q) Z_p?

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Graduate Def. of (mod2) reduction of w in H_2(M,Z)

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Undergrad Finding the delta angle in an irregular quadrilateral with angle bisector

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Graduate What is the Codifferential and How Can it be Calculated for 1-Forms?

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Undergrad How can an equation produce the iconic Gateway Arch using a catenary curve?

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Graduate Fecko: Differential Geometry 2.3.1

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Undergrad Why does the perimeter stay 4 as an inscribed polygon approaches a circle?

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Graduate How to Calculate the Box Counting Dimension in Chaos Theory?

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Undergrad Vector Geometry: Proving Quadrilateral PQRS is a Parallelogram

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Graduate Equations for the Lawson Klein Figure

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Graduate What are the Confusions Surrounding Tensors in General Relativity?

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Graduate Intersection Form of Connected Sum of CP^2

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Graduate Does dx give a nowhere vanishing 1-form on any 1-dimensional manifold?

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High School If a 3D object has 4 points. why use x,y,z to describe 3D?

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Graduate Does a metric defined by principal curvatures preserve positive Gauss curvature?

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Graduate How Are Tensor Indices Ordered in Calculations?

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Graduate Why Use Odd Notation for Tensors in Linear Algebra?

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Graduate Why is the instantaneous axis of rolling tangential to both surfaces?

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Graduate What are Fuzzy Manifolds and Their Role in Deformation?

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Graduate Laplacian on Riemannian manifolds

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Graduate Is the stereographic atlas of the sphere orientable?

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Graduate What is the Definition of an Affine Hypersurface?

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Graduate What is a tensor product?

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Graduate Can you describe the metric on the space of positive definite quadratic forms?

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Graduate Finding default unit vectors in 3D modelling

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Graduate Proving Constant Curvature in n-Dimensional Manifold

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Graduate Why Is an Apple Simply Connected but the Number 8 Multiply Connected?

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Graduate What is Euclid's Euclidean space?

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Graduate Determining Homology Groups of S^2 with a Morse Function

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Undergrad Find a where angle between AB and median from A is 45°

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Graduate Basis + covariant derivative question

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Graduate Definition of Normal (Intersection) Without Using a Metric

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Graduate Calculate reconstructionmatrix for ART

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Graduate How is the four vertex theorem for convex figures proved?

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Graduate Why is H_1(K) zero for a triangulation of S²?

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Graduate Product of a finite complex and a point

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Graduate Reduced homology of sphere cross reals?

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Graduate Intersection Form With Coeffs. in Z/2

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Graduate Tangent vectors as linear functionals on F(M)

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Graduate Change in Homology from Change in Coefficients

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Graduate How to Insure a Rectangle Lies Inside a Polyhedron?

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Undergrad How did trigonometry come about?

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Graduate Calculate ellipse from 4 points?

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High School Calculating Minimum Number of Radio Towers for Complete 100 Mile Coverage

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Undergrad Finding c and the MGF for f(x) = ce^(-x)

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Graduate What makes Lie Groups a crucial theory in modern dynamics and beyond?

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Graduate Coordinate tranformations on an embedded surface of in 3 space

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Graduate Cartesian torque to Spherical Coordinates

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Graduate Does Z^n as the First Homology Group Imply R^n with Real Coefficients?

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Undergrad Curve Sketching, How to get the Function?

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Undergrad Will limit of discrete steps give Pythagoras theorem?

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Undergrad Why can finite elements handle complex geometries, but finite differences can't?

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High School Point equidistant from y-axis and (4, 0)

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Graduate Structuring the graph of |x| so it is not a smooth manifold

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Graduate Can a Riemannian manifold support a shape satisfying both circle and square definitions?

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Graduate Defining integrals of differential forms without parametrizations

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Graduate Irreducible components of affine Variety

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Undergrad Tangent line parallel to a plane

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Graduate Which quantities are naturally forms, and which are (multi)vectors?

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Undergrad Finding Radius of 3 Congruent Tangential Circles in Larger Circle

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Graduate Spivak's notation re. tangent buldles (Diff. Geom. Vol. 1)

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Graduate Surjection Between Mapping Class Grp. and Symplectic Matrices

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Graduate Discrete quotient group from closed subgroup

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