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Graduate Metric coressponding to a set of curves?

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Graduate What are the prerequisites for understanding The Ricci Flow?

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Undergrad Is Cos(x) a Closed Function in R?

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Undergrad Differential Geometry: Learn Its Importance for Physics

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Graduate Phase flow is the one-parameter group of transformations

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Graduate Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem for Arbitrary Intervals

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Graduate Homeomorphism (defining a chart)

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Undergrad Coordinate on sphere(vector calculus)

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Undergrad Why is x > 0 not an open interval?

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Graduate How Did Dr. Grigoriy Perelman Solve the Poincaré Conjecture?

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Graduate Understanding Vector Fields on the Sphere S^2: A Student's Guide

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Graduate What is the Stone-Cech compactification of a product of Boolean algebras?

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Graduate What Is a Nontrivial Ultranet and Why Is the Axiom of Choice Needed?

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Graduate Does a faithful action of SO(3) imply a metric on R^3?

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Graduate How many different topologies can X have?

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Undergrad What are the prerequisites for topology?

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Graduate Functional analysis and diff. forms

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Graduate Gradient and differential notation

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Undergrad Define Circle Knowing Two Points and ARC LENGTH Only.

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Graduate Linear Maps and Fixed Points in RPn

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Graduate Is the Fundamental Group of X1 Trivial or Isomorphic to Z?

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Graduate Why Does the Contraction Term Vanish in the Divergence Theorem on Manifolds?

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Undergrad What is the Name of My Star Polyhedron?

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Undergrad Filling different shaped volumes

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Graduate Verifying Lie Bracket for Vector Fields on U

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Graduate Can a sphere have flat geometry?

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Graduate Proving Lines Contain Exactly n Points in an Affine Plane of Order n

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Undergrad Finding angles in a four sided room

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Graduate Why Do Subscripts and Superscripts Vary in Einstein Summation Notation?

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Graduate Does trivial cotangent bundle implies trivial tangent bundle?

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Graduate Do I need ODE and PDE for differential topology?

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Graduate Combinatorial Problem: Does Sum = Binomial Coefficient?

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Graduate F must be a Diffeomorphism: Why & What if?

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Graduate Interpretation of the covariant derivative

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Undergrad Number of monomials of degree d in finite field F[x]

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Graduate Proving Stirling's Formula - Get Help Here

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Undergrad Reflection of a 2-d shape about some line

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Graduate Why do you need a convex/concave function to do a Legendre transform?

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Undergrad Is a Bounded Set Always Finite or Can It Go to Infinity?

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Graduate Hereditarily normal, mutually separated subsets

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Graduate Continuous functions in metric spaces

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Graduate Trying to understand Levi-Civita Symbol and notation

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Graduate Proving Closed Sets using the Sequential Criterion

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Graduate Why is the boundary of the rationals (Q) equal to R?

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Graduate Poincare Conjecture: Understanding & Appreciating the Proof

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Graduate Deformation Retract: X to Y | Proving Homotopic Equivalence

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Graduate Different metrics same topology?

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Graduate Can Basis Ambiguity be Preserved for Entangled Particles?

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Graduate How Do You Determine the Fundamental Groups of Specific Matrix Spaces?

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Undergrad The VERY, VERY general equation of an ellipsoid - Who knows it?

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Graduate Explaining Connected Component: Real Numbers, Rationals, & More

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Graduate Is the Maximum Metric Valid for Product Topology on Combined Metric Spaces?

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Graduate Equivalence relations and equivalence classes

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Graduate Nowhere dense subset of a metric space

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Graduate Tensor derivative in continuum mechanics

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Graduate Can Non-Riemannian Geometry Exist Without a Metric?

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Graduate Is There a Difference Between a Vector Field and a Vector Function?

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Graduate Identification Space: Is A Cone?

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Graduate How Can a Vertex Represent a 0-Cell and an Edge Represent a 1-Cell in Topology?

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Graduate What Sets Exhibit the Wada Property in R2, R3, and R?

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Graduate Geometric interpretation of a given Alexandrov compactification

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Graduate Defining Inside and Outside of Loops on a Closed Surface

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Graduate A differential geometry question.

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Graduate Is the Geodesic Always the Shortest Path Between Two Points?

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Graduate Tensor of Type (k,l): John Lee, Wald's GR

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Graduate Tensor Applications: Find Unusual Ideas for Research

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Graduate Determining 4-vector character of a 4-tuple

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Graduate Geometric realization of topology

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Graduate Intersection of simply connected

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Graduate Expression with levi-civita symbol

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Graduate Distinction between this geometric example of a Diffeomorphism & a Homeomorphism

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Graduate How to Write (a_1+...+a_n)(b_1+...+b_n) in Einstein Notation?

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Graduate P-adic metric Strong triangle inequality

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Graduate R^2 - A, with A being a countable set, path-connected?

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Graduate Simple Topology problem (Munkres)

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Graduate Geodesic Tangent Vector: Affine Parameter Wald (p.41)

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Graduate How to represent a parametric curve?

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Graduate Integrating Metric Tensors: Conditions for Obtaining a Global Metric Function

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Graduate Can a Lie Derivative be Taken in the Direction of a Scalar Function?

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Graduate How is the Length of a Parallel Curve Calculated in Differential Geometry?

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Graduate Geodesic implies the well-known identity 0=0

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Graduate Linking of Curves: C1, C2 in R^3, D1, D2, Finite Loops

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Graduate Gauss Mapping of Surfaces in R^n: Intrinsic or Not?

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Graduate Understanding Scalar Curvature: Key Differences and Properties

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Graduate Relation between all 10 distance of 5 points

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Graduate Parametrization vs. coordinate system

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Graduate Showing that some curve is a circle

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Graduate Polar coordinates: derivation from rotation group

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Graduate Christoffel simbol and derivative from him

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Graduate Differential geometry - strange formula

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Graduate How Can You Create Your Own Mathematical Space and Explore Embedding Techniques?

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Graduate Linked Homotopy Theory: Preserving Linking Number Zero

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Graduate Are S^1 x S^2 & Familiar Topological Spaces Related?

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Undergrad How can the euclidean distance formula be proven for a set of coordinates?

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Graduate Curvature tensor of sphere radius R

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Graduate Finding Fundamental Group: Step-by-Step Guide

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Graduate Question on page 7 Flander's book on differential forms

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Graduate Topology Math GRE Prep | Best Book Intro Guide

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Graduate A differential geometry question

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Undergrad Checking whether a curve is a parabola or not

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