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(Why) Does Algebraic Topology only deal with topological spaces up to homotopy?

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Finding circle tangent to a line and intersecting a given point

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Is an argument valid if assuming its premises and conclusion leads to no contradiction?

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Crazy fact(?) about circles drawn on base of triangle between cevians: they always fit, no matter what their order?

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How to rationalize the denominator $\frac{1}{1 + \sqrt[3]{5} - \sqrt[3]{25}}$

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Formal Definition of Cardinality

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Incorrect reasoning during Taylor series derivation?

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Solving the Fresnel-type integral $\int_{0}^{\infty} \cos(x\sqrt{x^2+2}) \,\mathrm{d}x$ in an elementary way.

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Finding $\displaystyle \lim_{n \rightarrow \infty} \sqrt{n} \int_0^1 \left(\frac{\sin t}{t}\right)^n dt$

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How to prove this recurrence relation for generalized "rounding up to $\pi$"?

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Probability of Sisyphus laboring forever

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Find the max/min value of $x^2+y^2$ subject to $3x^2+5xy+3y^2=1$

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Is a parabola really a conic section?

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Evaluating $ \int \frac{ 1 } { \sin x - \cos x - 1} dx$

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Does a recursive definition of a variable make sense at all?

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How to solve for $y$ in $(1+x)dy-ydx=0$?

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Solve this trigonometry problem without using trigonometric functions.

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Categories where every morphism is a monomorphism

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Why inner automorphisms; why conjugation? Why not closure under other automorphims?

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Compute integral $\int^\infty_{-\infty}\frac{1}{\big(\frac89x^2+\frac23\big)\sqrt{\frac{x^2}{3}+1}}~dx$

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Integrating $ (x^2+2x+3)^{-2}$

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With the epsilon-delta definition of continuity, are the rationals continuous?

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An open set containing a closed ball should contain an open ball between them

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How to show that $x^2 \ge \frac{x^2}{2!} + \frac{x^3}{3!} + \frac{x^4}{4!} + \dots$?

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Find $\,\lim\limits_{t\to0^+}t\!\int_{t^2}^t\frac{\cos(x)}{x^{3/2}}\,\mathrm{d}x$

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how to solve $\lim_{x\to0}\frac{e^x-e^{-x}-2x}{x^3}$ without L'Hospital rule or Taylor series

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Find all real numbers $a$ for equation $x^3 + ax^2 + 51x + 2023=0$, has two equal roots.

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Extending an adjunction using colimits

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Are there non cyclic subgroup of the set of nonzero rationals under multiplication?

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How to prove $x + 3 = (x + 1)^2 \Leftarrow x=-2\;\text{or}\;1 \,? \quad \sqrt{x+3}=x+1 \Leftarrow x=1 \, ? \quad x^2 = x \Leftarrow x=0 \; $?

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Evaluating $\int_0^\pi \sin^2(3x+\cos^45x)dx$ (2023 MIT Integration Bee #16)

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Integrating the exponential of distance to a convex bounded set

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Why does this trig equation have only 2 solutions and not 4?

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Prove that $e^{-x^2}<\frac{1}{x^3}$, if $x>0$

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Evaluating $\sqrt{x+\sqrt{\sqrt{x+\sqrt{\sqrt{\sqrt{x+...}}}}}}$

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How does every vector space have at least two subspaces?

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Is this a new representation of (some) Bernoulli numbers?

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Teacher needs help with an integral involving trig identities that a student found online

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is real analysis just a bunch of proofs of theorems in calculus?

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Use of $\sum_{r=1}^{\infty} \frac{1}{r^2} = \frac{\pi^2}{6} $ in evaluating $I$

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Prove : $\int_{{π}/{4}}^{{π}/{2}} e^{\cos x + \cos^2{x}}\mathrm dx>\sqrt2$

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Is there a formula for $\sum_{j=1}^n \binom{m j}{m}$, where $m$ is an integer?

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Is there any simple method to evaluate $\int \frac{\tan (3 x)}{\tan(x)+\sec(x)} d x$?

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Australian Mathematics Competition Year 7-8 Question 21


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