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May 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2011 May 1

  1. Continuity
  2. Probability
  3. Identifying a quotient
  4. Tensors

May 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2011 May 2

  1. Product of series of a special form
  2. Statistics and Mutual Information
  3. Organization Membership Pattern

May 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2011 May 3

  1. Draupner Wave
  2. Taking loose change to Coinstar vs. rolling my own
  3. Are NURBS curves the most general class of curves that form a closed set under projective & perspective transforms?
  4. Multiplying by eight
  5. On r- Chromatic Graphs
  6. number theory

May 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2011 May 4

  1. Proof of matrix exponential identities
  2. PRNG based on Riemann Zeta Function
  3. Visually Displaying Divergence from a Planned Sequence
  4. Group theory: generators and relations within the commutator subgroup

May 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2011 May 5

  1. 2D Wiener Process
  2. Use of chinese remainder theorem, probably easy question

May 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2011 May 6

  1. Factoring equations into single polynomials
  2. GCE "A" level maths after the switch from GCEs to GCSEs
  3. Antisymmetric Matrix
  4. Probability (2 player game)

May 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2011 May 7

  1. Neural nets for time series forecasting
  2. Continued fractions and transcendentality
  3. Actuary

May 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2011 May 8

  1. LaTeX arithmetic
  2. Interesting series...

May 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2011 May 9

  1. Matlab number formatting
  2. 3D analog of a plane
  3. 3D surface

May 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2011 May 10

  1. Transcendental Functions
  2. Kelly criterion vs logarithmic utility function

May 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2011 May 11

  1. Using part of a character table to calculate the size of conjugacy classes
  2. should gay couples be given the legal right as heterosexual in adopting children?
  3. Markov chain mapping tools
  4. Another representation theory question: misunderstanding of the way irreducible representations decompose
  5. Probability problem.

May 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2011 May 12

  1. Special Relativity Small Angle Approx.
  2. Four Point Particles
  3. Density of a sphere packing
  4. What particularly strong reasons are there in favor of using equivalence classes?
  5. Simple puzzle
  6. Poppit probabilities

May 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2011 May 13

  1. Factoring Polynomials
  2. Latex
  3. Which are Martingales?
  4. Riemann Hurwitz formula and analytic maps on the Riemann Sphere

May 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2011 May 15

  1. Ellipse
  2. Multiplication of Cardinals and Order Preservation.
  3. Why is S5 a modal companion of CPC?
  4. Plane partitioning algorithm

May 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2011 May 16

  1. Black Scholes Transformation
  2. Area enclosed by ellipse equation
  3. Generating sequences based on probabilities
  4. Normal subgroups
  5. Is there a word for a (position, orientation) pair?
  6. Linear map from unit circle to ellipse

May 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2011 May 17

  1. Life density
  2. EXPAND MULTINOMIAL EXPRESSION
  3. Making fake fields with known covariance
  4. Mobius transformations and concentric circles
  5. Probability Question

May 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2011 May 18

  1. Rubik's Cube Group Theory!
  2. sum
  3. financial accounting 1
  4. an "elementary calculation"
  5. help please
  6. Diophantine equations

May 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2011 May 19

  1. Independence of Wiener process increments (expectation of product of random normal variables)
  2. Conjecture about generalized Fermat numbers in base 10
  3. Banach spaces and continuous linear maps
  4. Lagrange Interpolation Method

May 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2011 May 20

  1. finding the zeroes from fractions
  2. Critical points
  3. Monster group

May 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2011 May 21

  1. Dead people
  2. Inequality proof
  3. statistics/probability of getting to an article via patterns?
  4. Data set/graph terminology

May 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2011 May 22

  1. Using identities to integrate
  2. "Reflective" property of repeated decimals
  3. Matrix multiplication
  4. question
  5. Terminology for the elements of a Polytope
  6. Remainder term of Taylor series
  7. Attempt to calculate the fundamental group of R^3 - a circle

May 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2011 May 23

  1. Partial differentiation under the integral sign
  2. Simple differentiation
  3. dervative
  4. hyperbola
  5. MATHEMATICS FOR PHYSICS
  6. Student's t-distribution - for dummies
  7. proof?

May 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2011 May 25

  1. floating point multiplication
  2. area of sine using real numbers (maybe radians)
  3. Degenerate Hopf Bifurcation
  4. Probability question
  5. Mathematics equivalent of the scientific method

May 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2011 May 26

  1. chord and arc leangth
  2. Backwards induction optimisation problem (Bellman eqn)
  3. Equation help, please
  4. unlimited substitutability in logic notation
  5. function equals infinity

May 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2011 May 27

  1. Differentiability
  2. Latex Bracket Question
  3. Rank of TC(x)
  4. Inverse Laplace Transform
  5. Mapping from one region to another
  6. Conformal Mapping
  7. Electromagnetism
  8. Cayley′s theorem

May 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2011 May 28

  1. Inequality
  2. Roots vs Eigenvalues
  3. DCPO + Every finite subset has a join = CPO
  4. topological graph theory
  5. Stochastic matrix question
  6. Another matrix question(s)

May 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2011 May 29

  1. is the difference between 1x and 3x 2x or 3x?
  2. what's the relationship between 'formula' 'equation' 'function' in mathematical Perspective?

May 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2011 May 30

  1. Centre Manifold and Limit Cycle
  2. Integration

May 31

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2011 May 31

  1. Three equations, three unknown angles
  2. Confirm whether I've proved this right: normed spaces and linear subspaces
  3. Matrices
  4. Particular graph example: Turan graph related