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Undergrad Nice intro to connections between algebra and geometry

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Rotation around an arbitrary point

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Finding the Centroid of a Triangle Using Coordinates

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How to Calculate the Distance Between Parallel Lines in Hesse Normal Form?

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How to Calculate the Equation of a Tangent Line to a Circle?

  • mathmari
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Graduate Getting as close as possible to a solution (system of equations)?

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High School Galois Groups .... A&F Example 47.7 .... ....

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Galois Groups .... A&F Example 47.7 .... ....

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Groups of Automorphisms - remarks by Anderson and Feil ....

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Galois Groups .... A&W Theorem 47.1 .... ....

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Undergrad Galois Groups .... A&W Theorem 47.1 .... ....

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Groups of Automporphisms - Aut(C) .... Anderson and Feil Ch. 24 ....

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Undergrad Finite Extensions - A&F Example 44.2 .... ....

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Basic Notation for Field Extensions .... ....

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Finite Extensions - A&F Example 44.2 .... ....

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Undergrad Why is there a Matrix A that satisfies F(x,y)=<Ax,y>?

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Change from cartesian coordinates to cylindrical and spherical

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Undergrad Finding the inverse of a matrix using transformations?

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Undergrad Divergent Sums of Linearly Independent Elements

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Graduate Dot Product of Streaming vectors

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Undergrad Splitting Fields: Anderson and Feil, Theorem 45.6 ....

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Splitting Fields: Anderson and Feil, Theorem 45.6 ....

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Undergrad What does the multiplication of matrix represents?

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How Do Planes Intersect in Various Linear Systems?

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Undergrad Splitting Fields: Anderson and Feil, Theorem 45.5 ....

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Galois Theory - Fixed Field of F and Definition of Aut(K/F) ....

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Splitting Fields: Anderson and Feil, Theorem 45.4

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Undergrad Splitting Fields: Anderson and Feil, Theorem 45.4 ....

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What is the Linear Equation for the Yield of an Orange Grove?

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Undergrad Why is the Identity Matrix essential in Multivariable Control Theory?

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Undergrad Galois Theory - Fixed Field of F and Definition of Aut(K/F)

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Undergrad Galois Theory - Fixed Subfield of K by H ....

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Galois Theory - Fixed Subfield of K by H ....

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Galois Theory: Textbook recommendations?

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Undergrad Galois Theory - Structure Within Aut(K/Q) ....

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High School Associativity of Matrix multiplication

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Automorphisms of Field Extensions .... Lovett, Example 11.1.8 .... ....

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Undergrad Automorphisms of Field Extensions .... Lovett, Example 11.1.8

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Undergrad Developing Intuition Behind Affine Subspaces: A Sample Problem

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High School Why does every subfield of Complex number have a copy of Q?

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High School Vector Space over Field of Real Numbers

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High School ##AB = I \implies BA = I##, for square matricies ##A,B##

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Nested Matrix Elements: Define \Gamma^{\dagger}?

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Undergrad Intuition behind elementary operations on matrices

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High School What Does 'Simultaneous' Mean in Linear Equations?

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High School Is AB Invertible If n < m and B has a Non-Trivial Kernel?

  • Buffu
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High School Understanding Invertible Matrices and Homogenous Systems

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Undergrad Vector Parity: +1 or -1? Scalar Difference Explained

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High School What do "linear" and "abstract" stand for?

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Undergrad Field Extensions and "Free Parameters"

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Undergrad Example of an Inseparable Polynomial .... Lovett, Page 371 ...

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High School Proof of elementary row matrix operation.

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Undergrad Existence and Uniqeness of Finite Fields ....

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Existence and Uniqeness of Finite Fields .... Example from D&F ....

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Undergrad Separable Polynomials - Dummit and Foote - Proposition 37

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Undergrad Separable Polynomials - Remarks by Dummit and Foote .... ....

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Undergrad Separable Polynomials - Paul E Bland's definition and exampl

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Undergrad Splitting Fields and Separable Polynomials ....

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Undergrad Are There Nontrivial Solutions to the Matrix Equation X C X^T = C?

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Solve Bracelet Problem w/14 Beads (Red, White, Blue)

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Graduate How can I resolve band assignment issues in 3D simulations using Ansoft Maxwell?

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Graduate What if the (semi) field characteristic of N is not zero?

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Graduate How can I find the collision time of 2 ellipsoids that rotate

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Why is x^2 + 1 an Irreducible Polynomial?

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Field Extensions - Dummit and Foote - Exercise 13, Section 13.2 .... ....

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Undergrad Building a Unitary Matrix from a Non-Unitary Matrix

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Help with Dummit & Foote Exercise 1, Section 13.2 - Algebraic Extensions

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Algebraic Extensions - Dummit and Foote, Propositions 11 and 12 .... ....

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Undergrad Algebraic Extensions - Dummit and Foote, Propn 11 and 12 ....

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Undergrad Why is the dot product equivalent to matrix multiplication?

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Splitting Fields - Example 3 - D&F Section 13.4, pages 537 - 538

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Undergrad Tensor Invariance and Coordinate Variance

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Undergrad Splitting Fields - Example 3 - D&F Section 13.4, pages 537 -

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Basic Theory of Field Extensions - Exercise from D&F ....

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Undergrad Affine transformation and coordinates of maps

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Undergrad Similar Polygon Comparison for School Project

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Undergrad Algebraic Extensions - Lovett, Example 7.2.7 .... ....

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Graduate 4th order tensor inverse and double dot product computation

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Undergrad Distinction between coordinates and vectors

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Field Extensions - Remarks by Lovett - Page 326 .... ....

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Undergrad Field Extensions - Remarks by Lovett - Page 326 .... ....

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Solve Word Problem w/ Matrices: Chapter I

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Undergrad Field Extensions - Lovett, Theorem 7.1.10 - Another question

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Undergrad Why are polynomials defined the way they are in algebra?

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Fields and Field Extensions - Dummit and Foote, Ch. 13 .... ....

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Undergrad Understanding Extension Fields & Polynomials

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Undergrad Why Avoid Low Values of h in Derivative Estimations?

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Graduate Relation between Vector Norms in Cylindrical and Cartesian Coordinates

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Undergrad Difference between an Algebra and a Vector space

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Undergrad Fields and Field Extensions - Dummit and Foote, Ch. 13 .... .

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Undergrad Group Theory: Multiplicative Cosets Explained

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Field Extensions - Lovett, Theorem 7.1.10 .... ....

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Undergrad Fields and Field Extensions - Lovett, Chapter 7 .... ....

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Undergrad Why must an isomorphism between 2Z and 3Z result in mu(2) = +/- 3?

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Fields and Field Extensions - Lovett, Chapter 7 .... ....

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