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Undergrad Conjecture on primes (not mine=)

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Undergrad Calculating Coordinates on a Sphere Using Trigonometry

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High School Point on Vector - Learn Maths Basics

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Graduate Collinear vectors over finite fields

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Undergrad Is \sqrt{2}+\sqrt{5} an Algebraic Number?

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Undergrad Are Vectors Always Positive in a 1-Dimensional System?

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High School Representing vector by a number.

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Graduate Is There a Consistent Way to Divide by Zero in Extended Real Number Systems?

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Graduate Span(S1 ∩ S2) ⊆ span(S1) ∩ span(S2)

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Undergrad When are linear transformations not invariant?

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Undergrad Can You Help with These Integer Algebra Homework Questions?

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Graduate Groups and Graphs: Proving Transitive Action on Vertices

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Undergrad Linear Dependency Check: {e^x, e^{2x}}

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Graduate Inner Product of 0 vector, & Complex numbers

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Graduate Conjecture for prime pairs of difference two

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High School Unit Vector Confusion: Understanding Direction & Scalar Product Formula

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Graduate Characteristic Polynomials/Eigenvalues

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Graduate Where Can I Find Generators of R4?

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Graduate Can a Polynomial Equation Generate All Primes? A Proof for Euler's Polynomial

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Graduate Expansion for the prime counting function

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Graduate For a monoid, if uv = 1, do we know vu = 1?

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Graduate Remainder of the product of the relatively prime numbers

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Graduate Discrete hellmann-Feynman theorem ?

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High School Will a Random Number Generator Eventually Repeat Its Numbers?

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Graduate If x is a cycle of length n, x^n is the identity.

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Graduate A conjecture about sums of uniquely valued primes

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Graduate Debunking the False Proof of x^TAx=0 and A Being Antisymmetric Matrix

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Graduate Explaining How Ring of Polynomials Not Having Inverses Impacts Matrix Entries

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Graduate Possible convergence of prime series

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Graduate Average minimum tries for prime factorization

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Graduate Number of prime factors

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Graduate Prove det(A+I)=0 when Matrix A is Nilpotent

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Undergrad Can Ax = λx + b Be Solved in Euclidean Spaces?

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Undergrad Why do we use the term 'axioms' for vector spaces instead of 'definitions'?

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Undergrad Matrices and linear transformations

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Graduate Null subspace of a single vector

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High School Does a number n exist where 2^n mod 3 = 0?

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Graduate Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors of Non-Singular Matrices: A Proof and Explanation

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Undergrad Solving x5 in Terms of x Using Magma

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Undergrad Calculating Dim(ran(T) & Dim(Ker(T)

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Undergrad H Math Blog: Understanding Eigenvalues and Characteristic Polynomials

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Graduate Gradient of A*B: Adding and Subtracting Terms

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Undergrad How Do You Determine if a Linear Transformation is Injective?

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Graduate Proving Associativity of Direct Product of Two Groups

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Graduate About the idempotent R-homomorphism

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Graduate Torsion Module M with ann(M)={0} and Integral Domain R | R-Module Notations

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Undergrad What Is a Matrix Signature and How Is It Determined?

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Graduate The galois group of x^4 + 1 over Q

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Undergrad Geometric representation of composite numbers

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Undergrad How to know if the given vector is less or greater than the other vector?

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High School Find the equation in the form of ax+by+cz=d

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Graduate Proof of Congruence Transformation

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Graduate Diagonalization 2: Explaining Theorem 2.5

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Graduate Eigenvectors of first-order differential equation

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Graduate Understanding Abstract Algebra: A Geometric Approach

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Graduate Galous Group Modules Self Study: Q&A

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Graduate Plot graph of points with known inter distances

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Undergrad Finding the equation of a plane in 3-space

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Undergrad How do you solve differential equations using matrices?

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Graduate Proof and Justification for Diagonalization-Ordered Basis Theorem

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Graduate A linear operator T on a finite-dimensional vector space

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Undergrad Determine if linearly independent?

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Graduate Where Can I Find Information on the Zeta Function over Primes?

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Undergrad How Are Euclidean Algorithm and Hensel's Lemma Applied to Congruences?

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Undergrad How Are Eigenvalues Used in Real Life?

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Graduate The subtle difference between matrices and linear operators

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Graduate Density of primes between square numbers

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Undergrad What are the key definitions in Linear Algebra?

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Undergrad How were these line fitting equations derived?

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Graduate Is This Formula for Generating Primes New?

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Undergrad Does this kind of matrix product exist?

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Graduate System of nonlinear algebraic equations

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Undergrad Can Vector v Be Expressed as a Linear Combination of v1, v2, v3, and v4?

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Graduate Proof on Order of Elements in a Group

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Graduate Numerically solving the null vector

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Graduate Does Randomness in Function f(n) Impact the Riemann Hypothesis?

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Undergrad Factorizing Expressions: 216x2y2+150x2+6y2+72xy2+360x2y+48xy+40x+8y+7

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Undergrad How can we fairly distribute points in a peer evaluation with 6 classmates?

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Graduate Simple category theory isomorphism

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Undergrad Poisson distribution and binomial distribution questions

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Graduate Rank of a Matrix - Physics Forum | Jennifer

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Graduate Testing a Lanczos (tridiagonalization) algorithm

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Graduate How Can Vector Identities Be Proved Using Index Notation?

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Graduate I need a second opinion on a Graph Theory proof.

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Graduate Why are the casimirs independent of the representation

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Graduate Let A be an n x n matrix such that A^3 = On

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Graduate Is There a Function f: Z -> Z Such That f(f(n))=-n for Every Integer?

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Graduate Linear independence of eigenvectors

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Undergrad Checking Graph Colorability: How Many Colors are Needed?

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Graduate What is the meaning of this expression ?

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Undergrad Learning Algebra: Questions and Advice

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Graduate Applications of Abstract Algebra?

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Graduate Embed Symmetric Group in Alternating Group A(n+2)

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Undergrad Can Music Notes Be Transformed into Mathematical Algorithms?

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Graduate Unknown primes less than largest known prime?

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Graduate Constructible root from cubic polynomial

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Graduate Is Gamma Irrational? Investigating the Irrationality of Pi and e

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Undergrad Solving an example, vectors as rows or columns of a matrix = same solution.

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Graduate Definition of the determinant i = 1

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High School Changing the subject of a formula

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