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Undergrad Write a vector 's' in x y co-ordinate system

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Undergrad Odd Primes Congruent to 1 or 3 mod 4: Proof

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High School Properties of the Absolute Value

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Undergrad Studying Linear Algebra: Rn vs. Rm

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Graduate Compute determinant of a skew-symmetric matrix

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Graduate Representations of a noncompact group

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Undergrad Physical representation of irrational numbers

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Graduate Simple Proof of Fermat's Last Theorem and Beal's Conjecture

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Graduate Universal morphism to forgetful functor Ring->Ab

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Graduate Can a matrix of linear forms always be written as the sum of rank one matrices?

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Graduate Is V* ≠ {0} in Normed Spaces Easily Demonstrable?

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Graduate Exploring Prime Numbers & Square Roots

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Graduate Can Rank Two Tensors Be Formed Using Dot Products?

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Graduate Prime Indices & the Divisors of (p'_n - 1): A Lattice-Related Question

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Graduate Why modulo m1 and modulo m2 implies modulo [m1, m2]

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Undergrad Proving the Solution a=4 and n=2 for a^(1/n) = √a; a>0, n>1

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Graduate Kronecker Product: Solving AA` with w & D

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Graduate Solving a Tough Math Problem: Any Ideas?

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Undergrad Why is one root rejected when solving equations with multiple solutions?

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Graduate Solving System of 2n Equations

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Graduate Calculating Lie-Algebra Branching Rules

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Undergrad How to Convert Grammar to Chomsky Normal Form?

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Graduate Hamel basis and infinite-dimensional vector spaces

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Graduate Finite Prime Ideals in Noetherian Ring - Atiyah-McDonald

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Graduate Dual basis and differential forms

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Undergrad Anyone have any suggestions on books on chebyshev polynomials?

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Graduate Where Can I Find a Good Reference Book on Group Theory in Physics?

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Graduate Efficiently Solving Large Equation Systems in Particle Penetration Calculations

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Graduate Can Kummer Extensions of p-adics Prove a Contradiction?

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Graduate Is the Series Sum of Cubes Necessarily Convergent?

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Graduate Elegant Solution for the Snooker ball Problem

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Graduate Condition for a matrix to be Positive semi-definite

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Graduate Relatively Prime Quadratic Integers

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Graduate Riemann Hypothesis and Quantum Mechanics

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High School True Randomness - What Does it Mean?

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Graduate Understanding Additive Factor Group Q/Z

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Undergrad Relationship between determinants and basis formation

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Graduate Finite Dimensional Inner-Product Space Equals its Dual?

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Undergrad What's the difference between complex numbers and vectors?

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Graduate Proof of Basis Rep Theorem: Let n=a_0k^s+...+a_tk^t

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Undergrad Can a Quintic Polynomial be Factored Using a Nonlinear System?

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Undergrad Calculating the position of the 'other' focus point of an orbit

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Graduate How can the Langford-Skolem problem be solved?

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Undergrad Could this be a demonstrtion of following lucky strikes?

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Graduate How Do You Apply the Alt Operator to a Differential 2-Form in R^4?

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Undergrad Determinant of a symmetric matrix

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Graduate How Do You Derive the Least Squares Solution in Linear Regression?

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Undergrad I'm curious about a number series

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Graduate Semilinear Transformation, Kernel

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Graduate Rotations in spherical coordinates

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Graduate Theorem about p-groups, similar to 3rd Sylow Theorem

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Undergrad Fermat's Last Theorem - Exponent Three

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Graduate Why is T* the definition of an adjoint operator in functional analysis?

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Graduate Proving Group Equality for Normal Subgroups

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Graduate Proving Frobenius Norm of Matrix A

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Graduate Is y'' = y solvable by using a homomorphism and understanding its kernel?

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Graduate Find all solutions to 3^a - 1 = 2b^2 - B.M.O. problem

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Undergrad Testing Change of Basis in Linear Operator

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Graduate Coordinate System Transformations

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Undergrad What am I doing wrong with finding the equation of this plane?

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Graduate Cholesky decomp vs A = L'DL decomp.

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Undergrad Finding determinant with upper triangular matrix

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Graduate Linear Algebra Help for Norske-Norske Petrol Company

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High School A postulate of boolean algebra: x+(y.z) = (x+y).(x+z)

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Undergrad Dimension of 7x7 Matrices w/ Zero Trace: 48

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Undergrad Is there more than one possibility for eigenvectors of a single eigenvalue

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Graduate Null Space and Eigenvalues/Eigenvectors

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Undergrad The VERY last part of finding an eigenvector

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Graduate How can I accurately continue the zeta function to the entire complex plane?

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Graduate Riemann Hypothesis: Explaining \zeta(s) & Diagrams

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Graduate Existance of solutions to set of quadratic equations

  • Leo321
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Graduate Help with 3 proofs (integers/diophantine equations)

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Graduate General Questions on Polynomials, Vectors, and Matrices

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Graduate Extracting yaw, pitch, roll from transformation matrix

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Graduate Proving a solution exist? (mod p)

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Graduate Measuring how similar to a parallelogram

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Graduate Visualizing the Dot Product Inequality of a, b & c in R^d

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Graduate 2 dimensional plane of a 3 dimensional space

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Undergrad Divisibility rules using sum of digits

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Graduate Metric that isn't translation-invariant?

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Undergrad Computeing the coordinate vector

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Undergrad Why Are 3x3 Systems with Arithmetically Increasing Constants Always Infinite?

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Undergrad Finding A Matrix, given eigenvalues, and eigenvectors

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High School Understanding Vector Components and Negativity: A Scientific Explanation

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Graduate What does the notation S_4(2) mean?

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Graduate Similarity Transformation of Matrices: Decide w/o Eigenvectors

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Undergrad What is the composition of T and T in terms of linear transformations?

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Graduate Derivatives of functions with matrices

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Undergrad Cross product order of operations

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Undergrad How Do You Find the Modular Multiplicative Inverse?

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Graduate How Can You Determine Roots of a Quadratic in Any Field?

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Undergrad Can someone tell me what this is called?

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Graduate Question about order of an element

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Undergrad Finding matrices with very specific properties

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Graduate What is an Image in Abstract Algebra?

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Undergrad Help proving gcf(a,b) = gcf(a-b,2b-a)?

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Graduate Can X^4+nY^4 Always Produce a Prime Number?

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Graduate Using the First Isomorphism Theorem

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Graduate Which Positive Integers Can Be Written as x4 + 4y4 to Form Prime Numbers?

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Undergrad Testing the Usefulness of Prime Number Test

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