Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Mathematics/November 2008

= November 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2008 November 1


 * 1) Rubik's cube and Square one
 * 2) Adding two waves

= November 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2008 November 2


 * 1) 'Mistake' in counterexamples in topology
 * 2) Prufer code Cryptography?
 * 3) The Toronto Problem
 * 4) Largests prime with no holes?
 * 5) Spider solitaire
 * 6) Equivalence of 0-1 matrices

= November 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2008 November 4


 * 1) Pi
 * 2) Directed sets
 * 3) Regular Polygon
 * 4) Fraction Needed
 * 5) why the need
 * 6) Characteristic polynomial of product of two matrices

= November 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2008 November 5


 * 1) Some Econ Questions
 * 2) algebra
 * 3) Multinomial logit
 * 4) Statistics question

= November 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2008 November 6


 * 1) Labeled graph with non-scalar labels
 * 2) Matrix question
 * 3) "Simply" integrate
 * 4) What's the most general model for random graphs?
 * 5) left hand on wall of maze...wtf?
 * 6) sphere - ball, circle -> ??
 * 7) Least prime greater than n
 * 8) density (per unit volume) vs density (per unit area) or per unit hypervolume even

= November 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2008 November 7


 * 1) Distance between currves
 * 2) What is the integral of the Dirichlet function?
 * 3) halogen derivatives of alkanes
 * 4) Measuring buildings from photos
 * 5) Equivalence relations on square matrices

= November 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2008 November 8


 * 1) How does this work?
 * 2) A quantity linked to a graph.
 * 3) Is L really a splitting field?
 * 4) A number

= November 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2008 November 9


 * 1) rationalize more than two
 * 2) if someone suddenly became as smart as humanly possible at math, what could they do?
 * 3) Interblags
 * 4) Equations of Motion: Why is velocity sometimes given as ^-1 and sometimes with ^-2
 * 5) This function

= November 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2008 November 10


 * 1) probability
 * 2) Driving carefully

= November 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2008 November 11


 * 1) Subset symbol doesn't render on Wikipedia
 * 2) prove that cosine law
 * 3) Necessary and sufficient conditions for a space to be pra-metrizable
 * 4) Difficult integration

= November 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2008 November 12


 * 1) Strange LaTeX feature
 * 2) Very improbable election results

= November 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2008 November 13


 * 1) What is the purpose of a quadratic equation?
 * 2) Oldest known unsolved mathematical conjecture? (Possibly with legitamate references?)Taffycaker (talk) 13:12, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 3) pi
 * 4) Dominoes game strategy
 * 5) Curve Sketching Program

= November 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2008 November 14


 * 1) Fractal circle
 * 2) what kinds of math can and can't you do orally (no symbols)
 * 3) anything ever proved true that was almost certainly false (or vice versa?)
 * 4) first mathematician.  left-handed mathematician.
 * 5) O(n log n) Polynomial Derivative Evaluation?

= November 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2008 November 15


 * 1) Countable compactness => Lindelof (under what conditions)
 * 2) Number of terms

= November 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2008 November 16


 * 1) definition and usage of "identity"
 * 2) 1x1 matrix determinant
 * 3) The Derivative

= November 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2008 November 17


 * 1) Polynomials
 * 2) Matrix
 * 3) Mathmatic
 * 4) Basic mechanics
 * 5) Real Analysis: Inverse of continuous function of interior set
 * 6) Emacs + LaTex on Windows XP

= November 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2008 November 18


 * 1) statistics
 * 2) Vector Perdipendicular Product
 * 3) gauss?

= November 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2008 November 19


 * 1) Indescribable real numbers?
 * 2) What is the generalized term for exponentiation?
 * 3) Statistics - mtcars dataset

= November 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2008 November 20


 * 1) Smooth GPS track with time
 * 2) Summation
 * 3) Constructing a specific finite state automaton
 * 4) Bounding Box

= November 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2008 November 21


 * 1) Inverse fourier transforms
 * 2) Probability vs Common Sense

= November 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2008 November 22


 * 1) Set theory questions
 * 2) Category Theory
 * 3) geometry(shape and size,undefined terms)
 * 4) Linear feedback shift register
 * 5) RPN

= November 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2008 November 23


 * 1) Sum of Roots
 * 2) Numbers with the sme numerals
 * 3) The Thinking Person's (Re-)Introduction to Probability
 * 4) eigenvalues
 * 5) maths
 * 6) Quick Parabolic Interpolation

= November 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2008 November 24


 * 1) Difficulty while integrating
 * 2) Factorising polynomials
 * 3) negative fractional powers
 * 4) Derivative and product
 * 5) Test for vertex transitivity
 * 6) statistics on dually diagnosed patients in-patient stays

= November 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2008 November 25


 * 1) Inflection point midway between relative extrema
 * 2) Math puzzle based on number of factors?
 * 3) How many cases to know a population?
 * 4) Need help converting concept into mathematical formula
 * 5) maximum entropy

= November 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2008 November 26


 * 1) Incorrect theorem
 * 2) How often (if ever) do lotteries have a positive expectation?
 * 3) Algebra for college
 * 4) A hypothesis in probability and statatistics
 * 5) Circles
 * 6) Logarithm problem
 * 7) Elliptic curve

= November 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2008 November 27


 * 1) Diophantine
 * 2) Philosophy of probability

= November 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2008 November 28


 * 1) Capital pi notation
 * 2) Name of theorem/conjecture
 * 3) Google Billboard Riddle

= November 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2008 November 29


 * 1) Quadratic Equation

= November 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2008 November 30


 * 1) Polar graph racism?
 * 2) Limit
 * 3) Third derivative