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Graduate Is the trace of a linear operator independent of orthonormal basis?

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Undergrad How Does a Sphere Intersect Each Coordinate Plane and Axis?

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Graduate Deriving the Witch of Agnesi Curve

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High School Review High School level Geometry

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Graduate Are Originless Coordinates Possible for Spherical Surfaces and Planes?

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Graduate Need a bit more information about second-order tensors

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Graduate Gradient Tensor of a vector field

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Graduate Which Book on Fiber Bundles is Best for Beginners with an Intuitive Approach?

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Graduate Understanding Open and Closed Sets in Topology

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Graduate What's the questions asking me to show?

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Graduate Any good problem book on General Topology

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Graduate Connected vs. Path Connected Sets

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Graduate Closed/Open Transition Function Question

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Undergrad D-dimensional vs. n-dimensional ?

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Graduate Projection of area onto a plane

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Graduate Solving Isometries Proofs: Geometry Revisions & Help

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Graduate Fields and their relation to Tensors

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Graduate Covariant Derivative: Definition & Meaning

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High School Can a Pyramid's Lateral Edges Be Perpendicular to Its Base Edges?

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Graduate Can Singular Points Be Smoothly Transformed to Achieve Differentiability?

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Graduate Is there a continuous path in function space from f to g?

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Undergrad BrendanUnderstanding Topological Terms: Venn Diagrams and Examples

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Undergrad Projecting the Earth: A Diamond or Tetragon?

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Graduate Möbius transformations and SO(3)

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Graduate Can the Ricci Tensor's Trace be Applied to Tensors?

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Graduate What Are Examples of Torsion in Homology?

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Graduate How Does Knowing a Lie Algebra Inform Us About Its Corresponding Lie Group?

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Undergrad Measuring distances: why the Pythagoras formula

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Graduate Proving the Connection of Subsets in Topology

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Undergrad Calculate Angles on a Sphere: Quick Question

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Graduate Is GL2(R) an Open Subspace, Compact, or Connected?

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Graduate Is there a function for d\theta on the circle?

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Graduate Homology and Homotopy groups from properties

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Graduate Homology groups from Homotopy groups

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Graduate Is There a Closed Surface in 3 Space That is Not Curved?

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Graduate Are All Two-Dimensional Manifolds Conformally Flat?

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Graduate Distances, compactification & Möbius transformations

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Graduate 3D space where circumfernce = 4*pi*R

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Graduate Euler angles of rotation about x=y=z

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Graduate Eccentricity of a compressed circular ring

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Graduate Complex curvilinear coordinates(?)

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Graduate Curvilinear coordinates question

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Graduate What is the method for finding the centers of circles in the Apollonian Packing?

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Graduate Poincaré-Hopf Theorem: Proving General Cases

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Graduate Proving Completeness of a function space

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Graduate Coordinate Chart on Manifold: What is $\mathbb{R}^{n}$?

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Graduate Embedding manifolds that are not very flat.

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Graduate Total and exterior derivative of a 1-form

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Graduate Compact Space Hausdorff Preservation

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Graduate Open set is countable union of disjoint open balls

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Graduate Topological Definition of Arc Length

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Graduate Geodesics in non-smooth manifolds

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Graduate Limit Point of a Set: Definition, Center Point & Empty Set

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Undergrad Sierpinski's Triangle: Does the Line Intersect the Midpoint?

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Undergrad Finding the sides of a right spherical triangle

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Graduate Does an N-Cube have Surface Area?

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Undergrad Creating a 3D Pentagram: Find Equation for Sheetmetal

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High School Why is pi = circumference / diameter ?

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Graduate Closure of an abelian subgroup

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Undergrad Orthogonal projection of 2 points onto a plane

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Undergrad List of index notation properties ?

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Undergrad Find the equation of the tangent of the parabola y^2= 4px

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Graduate Linear Independence of Sets in a Linear Space

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Graduate Finding Limit of Angle Theta in Unit Cube in R^n

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Graduate Which algebraic topology textbook is the best for self-study?

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Graduate How Do You Calculate the Length of a Curved Fibre in Composite Processes?

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Graduate What is the Factor of F in the Differential Forms Problem on Smooth Manifolds?

  • Fredrik
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Manifold: what's the meaning of this name?

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Graduate Can a Klein Bottle be Constructed Using Rectangular Prisms and Circles?

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High School What Are the Best Books for Self-Learning Geometry?

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Graduate Connectedness of the closed interval

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Graduate Relationship between Chern and Levi-Civita Connections on Kahler Manifolds

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Graduate Angle between space-like and time-like vectors

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Graduate Formulas for Cardinality & Topology of a Set

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Graduate The jacobian matrix of partial derivatives?

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Graduate Best books for Differential Geometry?

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Undergrad Infinitesimal arc-length square

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Graduate Helix Tracing Helical Trajectory

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Graduate Is an associated bundle isomorphic to the principal bundle?

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Graduate Analytic equation of elliptic-like figure

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Graduate Annoying principal bundle problem

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Graduate Non-Symplectic Flows: Excluded Dynamics in Symplectic Mechanics

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Undergrad Trying to understand tensors and tensor notation

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Graduate Why Is the Fundamental Group of a Torus Described as Z+Z Instead of ZxZ?

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Graduate Surface area of a truncated ellipsoid

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Graduate Showing Regularity of X with Order Topology

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Graduate Integration on chains in Spivak's calculus on manifolds

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Graduate Understanding Image of a Curve - Ask Luca

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Graduate Matrix Formalism of Differential Geometry

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Graduate Do Orthogonal Transformation Matrices Imply Transpose Equals Inverse?

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Graduate How Is the Color Domain Used to Graph Complex Functions in Polar Coordinates?

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Graduate Ascoli's theorem: A subspace F of C(X,R^n)

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Graduate Not every metric comes from a norm

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Graduate Is Path Connectedness Enough for Local Path Connectedness?

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Graduate How Can Humanities Scholars Navigate the Complexities of Typology and Topology?

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High School Alpha and theta represent the same known or unknown angle?

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Graduate Algebraic Geometry: Investigating x_1 and x_2 Generating Structure Sheaf

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Graduate Can the Fundamental Group of a Genus 2 Surface Embed That of a Genus 1 Surface?

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Graduate What Does a Trivial Fundamental Group Indicate About Space X?

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Undergrad How do you calculate a vector area?

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