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Graduate Constructible sets contain a dense open subset of their closure
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Undergrad How Many Points Can Be Observed Simultaneously on a Sphere?
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How long would it take to read euclid's elements?
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Find Coordinates of a Point: Angle, Distance & 1st Pt
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Graduate How Do We Show Integral Unity of Transformed Functions?
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Graduate Prove S is Convex: Help with Convexity
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Undergrad How is the Mandelbrot set plotted and how are the color values determined?
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Undergrad Creating a sphere from a spline curve
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Graduate Finding the Radius of Curvature for a Helix: What is the Formula?
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Graduate Geodesic Curves Covering Surfaces
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Graduate Employment areas with PhD in Pure Maths?
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Undergrad Triangular Obelisk: Calculate Angle & Height
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Graduate Proving Sequential Compactness for Metric Spaces: Tips and Tricks
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Graduate How to Prove Incompleteness and Completion in Metric Spaces?
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Graduate Tensor question about Hypersurfaces
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Graduate De Rham Theorem: Homotopy & Line Integrals Explained
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Graduate SL(2,R)/SO(2,r)=H^2(2-dim hyperbolic space)
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Graduate Dyadic Product and Index of Refraction
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Graduate How Do Riemannian Connections Work on Non-Flat Manifolds?
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Graduate How does a fibre bundle differ from base space X typical fibre?
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Undergrad What is parametrization of a function with more than one parameter?
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Graduate Accumulated rotation over time
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Graduate Applied geometry: symmetry within a 3D volume
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Graduate S^n not a mapping cylinder. S^n and homeom. subspaces
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Graduate Taking the Trace of a Tensor Product
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Graduate Transformations involving singular points
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Undergrad Create plane from 3 points and distance from plane to point
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Graduate Circles in Non-Euclidean Geometry
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Graduate Simple question about definition of tangent bundle
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Graduate Sample Topological Spaces: X,t,G,F
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High School What's the Next Step After Plane Geometry in High School?
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Undergrad Tensor Product Explained: Best Elementary Tensor Algebra Books
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Graduate A problem about integral curves on a manifold
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Graduate What Defines a One-Form in Multivariable Calculus and Differential Geometry?
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Graduate Connection between Lie-Brackets an Embeddings
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Undergrad What Are the Best Books to Learn About Fractals?
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Graduate What Is the Usual Metric on the Sphere That do Carmo Doesn't Mention?
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Graduate Representations of the lorentz group
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Graduate Sphere Radius = 1 centered at origin
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Graduate The topology of rational numbers: connected sets
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Graduate Is K Open or Closed? A Topology GRE Question
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Graduate Distance between polygons in 3d? (points of contact as a function of time)
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Undergrad How to Convert Spherical Coordinates to Cartesian Coordinates in an Equation?
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Undergrad What Is the Equation of a Sphere in Spherical Coordinates?
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Graduate How to Rotate a Vector in Different Coordinate Spaces?
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Graduate Partitions of unity: support of a function
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Undergrad Can I study topology without taking multivariable calculus?
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Graduate Tensor Indices Switch with Infinitesimals and Space-Time Derivatives
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Graduate Why does stereographic projection preserve angles but not area?
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Undergrad Hello How to prove the min function is continuous?
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Graduate Differential geometry in quantum mechanics - conserved quantities
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Graduate Help with a special kind of Torus
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Graduate How Do Completely Regular Hausdorff Spaces Relate to Compact Hausdorff Spaces?
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Graduate How does one calculate the distance (or length) on the ground
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Undergrad Area between two eccentric circles
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Graduate Proving \alpha^i = v x^i on tangent vector space T_pM"
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Undergrad Why is noise always assumed to be Gaussian in noise-based applications?
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Graduate Area section of a sphere used for integration?
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Graduate Understanding the Degree of a Continuous Map g:Circle --> Circle
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Graduate What are the real-world implications of tangent vectors to a manifold?
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Graduate Something I read somewhere about Spin manifolds, I don't remember where?
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Graduate Elementary questions about fibre bundles
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Graduate Space filling curves: two and a half questions
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High School How can a highschool student study the nonuclidean geometry himself ?
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Graduate Projective Space: CP1, Homeomorphism to 2-Sphere?
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Undergrad Signed angle between two 3D vectors
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Graduate How Do Tensor and Wedge Products Relate in Differential Geometry?
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Graduate A question of the complete metric space
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High School Do trapezium angles have to equal 360 degrees?
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Graduate Short question about Laplacians
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Graduate What Is the Easiest Topology Textbook?
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Graduate Why is the cusp not a submanifold?
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Graduate Topological transform of singular points?
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Undergrad Is Differential Geometry a Fun and Essential Subject for Theoretical Physics?
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Graduate Ricci-Tensor from Riemann in higher dimensional flat space
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Undergrad How Do You Perform a 90 Degree Rotation of a Complex Number Around a Point?
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High School Proving Congruence of Line AE and BD
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Graduate Banach Space that is NOT Hilbert
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Graduate Another implememntation of van Kampen thoerem.
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High School Prove Exterior Angle Bisector Property in Triangle ABC & Point D
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Graduate Proving C(X) is a Banach Space for Compact Hausdorff X
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Graduate Can Trilateration Determine the Angle in a Dynamic Circle Problem?
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Graduate Proving Simple Connectedness: Intersection and Union of Two Spaces
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Graduate Nontriviality of the Möbius bundle without orientability
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Graduate What is the relationship between open and dense sets in R^n?
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Graduate Is the product of two open sets open?
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Graduate Where did the error occur in calculating the Lie derivative using an example?
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Undergrad Questions regarding function operations on sets.
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Graduate Connected components of a manifold
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Undergrad Finding Irreducible Basic Fractions with Denominator n
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Graduate Action of Clifford-elements on vectors & spinors
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Undergrad Calculate Smallest Bounding Rectangle Area - Cartesian Coordinates Program
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High School Solving Hari Prasad Misra's Staircase Problem with Max 2 Steps
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Graduate How Do Torsion Concepts Differ in Algebra and Differential Geometry?
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Graduate What are the 'closed geodesic' ?
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Undergrad Get Polygon Side Length From Radius
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Graduate What Are Differential Forms and How Do They Apply in Differential Geometry?
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Undergrad Volume of cylinder with a 45 degree branch
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Graduate Working with the inverses of composite functions
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Graduate Can every isometry in the plane be composed of at most three reflections?
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