Differential Geometry Forum

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Undergrad Tangent/normal/area for this Circle

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Graduate Is non-Euclidean geometry just a change of perspective?

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Graduate What Are the Best Resources to Learn About Non-Commutative Geometry?

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Undergrad Finding a plane containing one line and parallel to another

  • phoneprinter
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Graduate How Do You Determine the Minimal Distance to a Circle in 3D Space?

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Graduate How Can I Improve My Understanding of Twisted Forms in Mathematics?

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Graduate How to Calculate Structure Constants for Reparametrized Rotation Group?

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Undergrad What is the physical significance of divergence and curl?

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Graduate Expanding manifold with constant boundary

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Undergrad Purpose and interpretation of homogeneous coordinates

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Undergrad Advice on geometric calculations

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Graduate If curvature were an exact differential

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Undergrad Can we remove 200 points from a 1998-point graph and keep it connected?

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Graduate Lie transport vs. parallel transport

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Undergrad How to find the reflection of a line in a 3D plane

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Undergrad Why can a vector equation represent a line if vectors aren't collinear?

  • Saad
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Graduate Proving Q = gradP + Sr for Splitting Vector Field B

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Graduate Quick Introduction to Tensor Analysis

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Graduate Choosing useful coordinates for a problem in differential geometry

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Graduate Decomposition of a Divergenceless Vector Field

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Graduate Which of the following is a metric on S? d^2 or d^(1/2)

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Graduate Hausdorff topological space M of dimension m

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Graduate Request for help and/or comments

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Undergrad Finding the Cartesian equation for x = e^t, y = e^-t

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High School Operation that will undo a curl operation?

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Graduate How Do You Transform a (1,2) Tensor?

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Graduate 4-volume is a rank (0,0) tensor?

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Graduate Given a general graph on a plane, deform the plane in 3 space

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Graduate Theorem between Curvature and submanifolds

  • Mike2
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Graduate Definition of a vector using transformations

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Graduate Understanding Geodesic Deviation: Solving for Equations (7) to (8)

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High School Is analytical geometry offered at high school level?

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High School Difference between plane geometry, solid geometry and differential geometry

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Graduate Can You Simplify Inertia Tensor Calculations for 3D Objects?

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Graduate Metrics and coordinate transforms

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Graduate Drawing Curve in R2 Space: ds2=y2dx2+dy2

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Graduate How do you pronounce Synge's theorem?

  • Mike2
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Undergrad Does the nine-point circle work with all triangles?

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Graduate Proposed Resource Sticky for Quantum Differential Geometry

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Graduate Basic tools for quantized differential geometry

  • marcus
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Graduate Comments on Toy Principle Bundle

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Graduate Building a Toy Principle Bundle: Visualizing Connections on Manifolds

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Undergrad Differential geometry and tensor calculus

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Graduate Can Singularities Be Modeled as a Conventional Field?

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Graduate Fresh start at a (Loop) Quantum Gravity thread

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Graduate Principal G-bundle and bundle of bases (footnote)

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Graduate Development of Loop Quantum Gravity

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Undergrad Rotating vector x around vector z

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Graduate Baez versus Rovelli's approach to teaching general relativity

  • marcus
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High School Could a vector be also a curved line not only a straight line?

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Graduate One half of LQG's proposed math framework topic

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Undergrad How Can You Calculate the Length of a Sine Wave's Curve?

  • Raavin
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Graduate What is the best font for displaying mathematical symbols?

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Graduate Thetas, tets, sixjays and such

  • marcus
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Undergrad What is the Notation of a Manifold?

  • MathematicalPhysicist
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Graduate SO(n) isomorphic to geodesic translations on an (n(n-1)/2)-sphere?

  • Tyger
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Graduate Non-self-intersecting non-geodesic line on a hypersphere

  • Tyger
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Graduate How Are Surface Curvatures Derived from Implicit and Parametric Forms?

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Graduate Rotation and increasing radius

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Graduate Why is the moment of inertia a tensor?

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Graduate N-dimensional geometric partitioning

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