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Graduate Why Is the Index Shifted in Laplacian Eigenvalues?

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Is My Matrix Solution Correct?

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Graduate Adjoint of an adjoint of a linear map

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Graduate Can Vectors Span Just the Unit Sphere in Spherical Geometry?

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Graduate Rubik's cube group element with the smallest order

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How to Solve a System of Three Equations with Three Unknowns?

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Proving Subspace: Basic Proof for $V(A)$

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Graduate Why is ##Aut(C_8)## not a cyclic group?

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Graduate Every field is an integral domain?

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Graduate Attempting to better understand the group isomorphism theorm

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Properties of permutation of a set

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Vector Space - Proving Associativity

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Why does λI - A give wrong eigenvalues for one eigenvalue?

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Factoring x^4+4x^3-x^2-16x-12 by long division

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Graduate Mismatched dimensions in a tensor product with CNOT

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Undergrad Difference between Tensors and matrices

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What Value of a Makes Two Linear Equations Parallel?

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Graduate What is the solution to the 1=0 paradox involving self-adjoint operators?

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Undergrad How does facial detection with matrices work?

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Graduate Kernel vector of statics Jacobian

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Graduate Groups of Order 16 with 4-Torsion, Up to Isomorphism

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Graduate Understanding Cardano's method of solving Cubic equation

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Graduate When is the Frobenius norm of a matrix equal to the 2-norm of a matrix?

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Linear Dependence in \mathbb{R}^4?

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Possible Echelon Form of Matrix

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Graduate Is Wedge Product the Same as Cross Product?

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Graduate Deducing Basis of Set T from Coordinates in Matrix A with Respect to Basis S

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Graduate Are \bigoplus and \times interchangeable in direct sum and direct product?

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Definitions of Functions and Spaces

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Graduate Prime ideal in noetherian integral domain lemma

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Elements of $\mathbb{F}_{2^2}: What Are They?

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Graduate How to show u x v in R^n space is orthogonal to u and v?

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Possible Echelon Form of a Matrix

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Does the Subring Generated by Two UFDs Always Result in a UFD?

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Graduate Smallest order with exactly 3 nonisomorphic Abelian groups

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Undergrad Null matrix can be an idempotent matrix?

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Graduate Generalization of combinatorial generating functions?

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Undergrad Is the Transpose Conjugate of a Unitary Matrix Equal to the Identity Matrix?

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Graduate Irreducible linear operator is cyclic

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Undergrad Meaning of linearly dependent equations

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Undergrad Linear independancy and orthogonality of vectors

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Vectors in $R^3$: Is $\begin{bmatrix}4\\3\\0\end{bmatrix}$ Valid?

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Undergrad Why does a dependent system of 3 equations have a unique solution?

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Undergrad Linear Algebra -finding determinant of a matrix

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Graduate Eigenvalue distribution relation

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Inverse Eigenvalues: A Puzzling Question?

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High School Matrices Math: What is a Determinant?

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Graduate How can the kernel of a ring morphism be a subring?

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Graduate Why right cosets like Ha are not subgroups

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Undergrad Can a matrix have both zero and non-zero eigenvalues?

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Undergrad The geometric shape of parametric equations

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Undergrad Significance of Jordan Canonical Form

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Is $ \mathbb{Z}_p $ an Integral Domain and Principal Ideal Domain?

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Noetherian Modules - Bland Proposition 4.2.3

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Northcott - Sums and Products of Ideals

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Graduate What Does the Second Index in SO(n,p) Represent?

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Graduate Antisymmetrization of multi-index tensors

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Finite Group Inverses: Proving $N_{ABC}=N_{CBA}$

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Graduate Unitary Operation On A Complex Matrix

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Graduate What is the variance of the product of a complex Gaussian matrix and vector?

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Graduate Variance of a vector product/sum combination

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Graduate Transitive subgroup of the symmetric group

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Spanning Spaces with Linear Combinations

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Graduate Why does counting cosets seem to give G times H elements?

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Normal subgroups (Sylow Theorem)

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Northcott - Proposition 3 - Non-empty Inductive System

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Northcott - Proposition 3 - Inductive Systems Maximal Elements are Prime Ideals

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Undergrad Difference between span and basis

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Graduate Quotient field of the integral closure of a ring

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Graduate Irreducible representations of SL(2,C)?

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Why Are Maximal Elements in Omega Prime Ideals?

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What Determines the Galois Group of a Polynomial's Splitting Field?

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Graduate English name for the canonical factorization theorem

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Graduate Valuations and places - decomposition and inertia group

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Number of Elements in Finite Fields?

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Undergrad Linear operator, linear functional difference?

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Undergrad Why isn't a set of 2 vectors in ℝ³ always linearly dependent?

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Noetherian Modules: ACC, Finite Ascending Chain Definition - Bland

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Bland - Proposition 4.1.1 - (4) => (1)

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Graduate Is it possible to determine a basis for non-subspace spaces?

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Graduate The exclusion of empty substructures

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Symmetric and anti-symmetric matrices

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For which values of k is A^3 invertible?

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Graduate Complex line equation with condition |a| = |b|

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Noetherian Modules - Bland - Proposition 4.2.3 - (3) => (1)

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Noetherian Modules - Bland - Proposition 4.2.3

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Graduate Example of a local field of positive characteristic?

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Graduate A vector whose components are vectors?

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Graduate Can someone explain fractional calculus?

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Undergrad LU solve for matrix with zeros on diagonal

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Graduate General Process for finding elements of a group

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Graduate Dual vector spaces and linear maps

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Sum of Submodules - infinite family case

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Direct sum of free abelian groups

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Graduate Similarity Transformation Doesn't seem to work

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Undergrad More than 3 eigenvectors perpendicluar

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Graduate Extending a Set of 3 Orthogonal Vectors to a Basis in R^5

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Undergrad Why is AB an Orthogonal Projection Matrix?

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