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MHB How Does the Triangle Inequality Apply to Complex Numbers?
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Graduate Number of topologies on a 3-point set
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Graduate Papers by D. Carfi: extended spectral theory of distributions.
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Graduate Quotient Spaces and Homeomorphisms
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Graduate When can we say a homotopy restricted to a subset is a homotopy itself
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Graduate Analytic mapping from disk to disk must be rational
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Graduate Help understanding Laurent series in complex analysis
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Graduate Is Every Point in a Subset of ℝ Either a Limit Point or an Isolated Point?
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Graduate Swapping Integrals and Sums: When is it Justifiable?
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Graduate Can Euler's Method Solve Higher Order Sums in the Basel Problem?
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High School Is a Singleton a Connected Set?
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MHB How Does the Order of Convergence Relate to Numerical Schemes for ODEs?
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MHB What are the best definitions for limsup and liminf in sequences?
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Graduate Curl and its relation to line integrals
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Graduate Exchanging derivative and improper integral
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Graduate How are Riemann surfaces graphed
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Graduate Is Bifurcation Topologically the Same?
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Graduate What happens with a differentiable function in the neighborhood of x?
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MHB Confirm Answers on Homework Sheet: Subsequence Convergence
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MHB Converging Subsequences: Finding a Sequence for All Integers
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MHB Binomial Expansion Approximation for $\frac{1}{\sqrt{1 - A^2u^2}}$
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MHB Clovis's question at Yahoo Answers (bounded sequence)
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Graduate Conformal Mapping and flow normal to ellipse
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Graduate Boundary of an open set in R2 is a limit point?
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Graduate Quick question about Dirac delta functions
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Graduate Is a Circle Homeomorphic to a Subset of R^n?
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MHB How to prove sequence converges quadratically to a root of multiplicity
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MHB Solve twice differentiable function
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MHB Infinite products defining entire functions
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MHB Proving $f(x_k+εp)<f(x_k)$ with Taylor Series
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MHB Continuity in terms of closed sets
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MHB Proving Function Polynomial in Coordinates is Differentiable Everywhere
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MHB Sequnce of rationals less than pi, which converges to pi
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Graduate Is My Understanding of Vitali Sets Accurate?
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MHB Prove the limit of the nth root of n
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MHB Snell's Law and complex refractive indices
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Graduate Changing the orientation of a connected topological space
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Graduate Taylor series expansion of Dirac delta
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Undergrad The Continutiy and the Convergence.
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Graduate The illusory generality of metric spaces
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MHB Find Counterexample for Expression about Limit of Composition Function
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MHB Fresnel Integrals: Unsolved Question from MHF
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Graduate Measure of Reals: Countable or Uncountable?
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Undergrad Why is the Euclidean norm crucial in vector analysis?
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Graduate How would I prove that ln (lim (u)) = lim (ln (u))
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Graduate Proving Subdivision and Refinement: Is it as Simple as it Seems?
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Graduate Is a Measure 0 Null Set Also Dense?
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Graduate Could someone specify a metric on (0,1)
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MHB Residue at essential singularity
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MHB Is the Function \( f(x,y) \) Continuous on \( \mathbb{R}^2 \)?
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MHB Confusion in proof involving lim and liminf
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Graduate Limit of integral lead to proof of convergence to dirac delta
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Graduate Analysis of vector fields, fourier and harmonics
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Graduate Questions about Attachments: Outer Measure and Infinity
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Undergrad Proof of "If f(x) is Continuous, then |f(x)| is Continuous
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MHB Compute Residues for Periodic Function with Multiple Poles?
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MHB A proof question about continuity
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MHB .Proving Supremum of H: f(x)<d, [a,b]
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Graduate Where Did the 2's in the Denominator Go in the Fourier Analysis Proof?
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MHB Proof the convergence of a gamma sum
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Graduate A question about Dirac delta function
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Graduate Show that the preimage of dense set is dense?
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Undergrad A Closed set in the Complex Field
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MHB Proof about the continuity of a function of norm
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MHB Chen's question at Yahoo Answers (continuity of the norm).
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Graduate Inverse of Metric in Topology: Schwarz Inequality
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Graduate Topology on Eculidean n-space(ℝ^n)
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Undergrad How Do You Graph the Complex Function w = z^(i+2)?
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Graduate What Constitutes something being coordinate free
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MHB How Can I Solve This Integral Using Complex Integration?
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Graduate On continuous and locally one-to-one map
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Graduate Continuous functions on metric space, M
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Graduate Can you think of quasi-norms which aren't norms?
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Graduate Is the Unit Interval [0,1] Open in Its Inherited Topology from the Real Line?
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MHB The Geometry of Complex Numbers and the Confusion of $e^{i\pi} + 1 = 0$
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MHB Is a non-repeating and non-terminating decimal always an irrational?
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Graduate Dirac Delta Function: Does it Have a Residue?
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Graduate Relationship between seminormed, normed, spaces and Kolmogrov top. spaces
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Graduate Complex conjugate as a Mobius transformation
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Graduate Contour integration of real functions
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Graduate An Open and Closed Interval in Q
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Undergrad Can We Assume Equality of Complex Numbers Based on Their Norm?
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MHB How to Prove $n^{\alpha} > \ln(n)$ for $\alpha>0$ and n is Sufficiently Large?
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MHB Why Is ln(1+x) Greater Than x/(2+x) for x > 0?
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Graduate What Does the Third Axis Represent in Riemann Zeta Function Zeros Graphs?
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Graduate Dirac delta function how did they prove this?
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MHB A very interesting complex beta integral:
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MHB Integration a long closed curve is 0
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Graduate Are open sets in R^n always homeomorphic to R^n?
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Graduate How Does Length Extend to General Sets of Real Numbers?
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MHB Solve the following integral without complex analysis:
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Graduate Countable intersection of F-sigma sets
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Undergrad Natural Log : seems as a discontinous function
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Graduate Complex Analysis - Fibonacci Identity
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Undergrad Can irrational numbers exist on the numberline?
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Graduate A fundamental question on homeomorphism
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Graduate Prove f is in L3(dμ): Measurable Function
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MHB Is This Integral Really Too Difficult to Solve?
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Graduate Understanding Quotient Spaces of Triangles
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MHB How to Analyze Series Convergence with a Floor Function?
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