From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
<< Dec | Mathematics desk | Feb >>
Welcome to the Wikipedia Mathematics Reference Desk Archives
The page you are currently viewing is a monthly archive index. While you can leave answers for any questions shown below, please ask new questions on one of the current reference desk pages.



January 1 Information

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2010 January 1

  1. Maths - discovered or invented?

January 2 Information

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2010 January 2

  1. Original Basic Discovery or No?
  2. How to factorise
  3. Geometric algebra question - involutions
  4. Proof of continuity
  5. What's a mathematical coincidence?

January 3 Information

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2010 January 3

  1. Generalized Heat Equation
  2. Diffusion Equation
  3. Formal sums for quotients of primorials

January 4 Information

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2010 January 4

  1. conversions
  2. Cantor's Ordinal Numbers
  3. Term by Term Integration of a Fourier Series
  4. Sums of squares
  5. Rates of decline
  6. jection

January 5 Information

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2010 January 5

  1. Convergence
  2. Question on combinations
  3. Möbius Maps
  4. NP and NPC

January 6 Information

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2010 January 6

  1. Predicting number of items in a set (statistics)
  2. division by zero
  3. Quotients and products of topological spaces.
  4. Limits
  5. Extension fields
  6. How to solve for B
  7. Logarithms and order of operations

January 7 Information

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2010 January 7

  1. TI 84 plus calculator program

January 8 Information

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2010 January 8

  1. Simple Mathematics, Requiring Data
  2. Differentiable?
  3. Number of partitions of a set in classes of given cardinalities.
  4. Letter grid problem
  5. Limits

January 9 Information

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2010 January 9

  1. Arrow's impossibility theorem and real elections
  2. 1001 (number)
  3. Pairwise coprime integers
  4. calculating pi
  5. Standard deviation of 4 numbers

January 10 Information

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2010 January 10

  1. Sum
  2. Harmonic series

January 11 Information

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2010 January 11

  1. Perimeter of a trapezium
  2. Smoothness Scale In Number Theory

January 12 Information

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2010 January 12

  1. Normal Closures Qual. Exam
  2. solution of differential equation of motion of a quarter car
  3. Locally invertible function from R^2 to R
  4. Estimating number ratios

January 13 Information

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2010 January 13

  1. Cube root function on the space Mn of matrices
  2. finding the centre of a circle
  3. Nilpotent homomorphisms
  4. 35 degrees east

January 14 Information

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2010 January 14

  1. An elementary homotopy equivalence
  2. Consecutive integers with same sum of proper divisors

January 15 Information

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2010 January 15

  1. Is there a name for this property of sets?
  2. Is a set that contains only itself hereditary?
  3. Continuity of power functions
  4. Infinite ordinals
  5. Properties of certain symmetric matricies?

January 17 Information

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2010 January 17

  1. Archimidean Spiral Segment
  2. Identity Matrix Multiplication
  3. Weird summation notation
  4. Certain repeating digits

January 18 Information

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2010 January 18

  1. Asians
  2. differential
  3. What does this symbol/suffix mean?

January 19 Information

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2010 January 19

  1. Policy recommendation for comparing citation totals or h-index for any mathematician
  2. Variation on equals sign
  3. P.G.F. question
  4. 3 rotations about the vertices of a triangle: identity map

January 20 Information

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2010 January 20

  1. Eigenvalues and eigenvectors
  2. Riemann integral
  3. A few more geometry problems!
  4. Geometry question

January 21 Information

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2010 January 21

  1. Riemannian geometry
  2. Fractional chromatic number
  3. Expected value problem
  4. can you explain turbo codes OR LDPC?

January 22 Information

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2010 January 22

  1. Weaker versions of Fermat's Last Theorem
  2. Bounds

January 23 Information

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2010 January 23

  1. Finding a surface on which integrals of multiple functions are 0

January 24 Information

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2010 January 24

  1. Query on an online document - subgroups of A5
  2. College question: What material do I need to have a firm grasp on?
  3. Factoring Polynomials
  4. Complex icosidodecahedrons

January 25 Information

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2010 January 25

  1. Cryptography
  2. Differential equation
  3. Topological Group Question

January 26 Information

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2010 January 26

  1. Inverse Trigonometric Identity Prove
  2. Cross ratio equal to 1/2tan^2 of spherical distnce
  3. I was wondering...
  4. Normed Spaces
  5. A loxodromoid?

January 27 Information

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2010 January 27

  1. Calculating the area of a triangle while on a coordinate system
  2. Effective procedure
  3. Three little geometry puzzles
  4. sequence space
  5. Smooth structures (manifolds)
  6. Another triangle problem
  7. How to build an ellipse?

January 28 Information

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2010 January 28

  1. Golden Ratio
  2. Reversion to the mean
  3. NP definition
  4. j-invariant

January 29 Information

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2010 January 29

  1. Why is the perimeter of a spherical triangle less than 2 pi?
  2. Unique bid auctions
  3. Cardinality
  4. ratio inequality
  5. What algorithm?
  6. Proof
  7. Derivative question
  8. Monty hall paradox

January 30 Information

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2010 January 30

  1. percentages,round offs and number based systerms
  2. could there be ANY change made in the rules of logic without immediate inconsistency?
  3. Hexadecimal

January 31 Information

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2010 January 31

  1. Normal vectors
  2. Rhombicosidodecahedron
  3. Strange use of log
  4. Function harmonic on a strip
  5. Intersecting cylinders
  6. What is the link between the edges, faces and vertices of a 3D shape?