Ben Blum-Smith

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Solve equations in a field with characteristic p.
may 2 at 4:17
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Proof That $1=0$ — Why is it False?
apr 25 at 15:07
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Plane rotation homomorphism
apr 16 at 23:26
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Looking for a “prime-ish” family of subsets
apr 16 at 16:05
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Extending a quotient map to a covering map on $\mathbb{RP}^2$
apr 8 at 19:37
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Classifying Algebraic Structures as Fields
apr 10 at 19:05
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What is the difference between $f(f^{-1}(U))$ and $f^{-1}(f(U))$?
mar 31 at 6:07
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Terminology: arbitrary vs. finite
feb 19 at 22:46
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Are there fields $F$ such that the rings $F[x]/(x^2)$ and $F[x]/(x^2-1)$ are isomorphic?
dec 19 at 1:26
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how to be good at proving?
sep 4 at 17:27
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Find a function $f: \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}$ that is continuous at precisely one point?
aug 27 '11 at 7:31
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How does one prove that if $f$ and $g$ are linear functionals on $V$ such that $h=fg$ is also a linear functional, then either $f=0$ or $g=0?$
mar 13 '12 at 1:41
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Difference between free groups, free product of two groups, tensor product of two infinite cyclic groups
mar 6 '12 at 20:39
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Isometries of the Plane - Stabiliser of a Line and Further Discussions
feb 21 '12 at 21:53
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Tangent map between tangent spaces
feb 19 '12 at 15:50
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Burnside theorem?
jan 20 '12 at 11:27
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That $|a|\leq|b|$ implies existence of complex $z$ satisfying $|z-a|+|z+a|=2|b|$?
jan 18 '12 at 17:59
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How to translate from one math formula format to another?
jan 17 '12 at 14:52
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Repeating digits in $\pi$
jan 17 '12 at 3:36
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Classical texts that should not be missing from any shelf
jan 14 '12 at 23:54
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Classical texts that should not be missing from any shelf
jan 14 '12 at 23:53
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Classical texts that should not be missing from any shelf
jan 14 '12 at 23:51
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Can you construct a field over every set $M$?
jan 12 '12 at 13:09
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Original works of great mathematician Évariste Galois
jan 12 '12 at 14:25
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From continuity to differentiability and analyticity- what's next?
jan 6 '12 at 21:27
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$e_1\otimes e_2 \otimes e_3$ cannot be written as a sum of an alternating tensor and a symmetric tensor
dec 30 '11 at 0:02
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False beliefs about Lebesgue measure on $\mathbb{R}$
dec 24 '11 at 14:00
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Non-trivial solutions for cyclotomic polynomials
dec 21 '11 at 17:15
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In a Noetherian ring, does every set of generators of an ideal have a finite subset of generators
nov 16 '11 at 16:01
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Converting between two frames of reference given two points
sep 16 '11 at 13:02
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