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I am interested in the History of Mathematics, especially the early ideas of Eudoxus and the Greek school. My thesis was in the area of Number Theory via Elliptic Curves.

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"Integral Milking"
Jun 16, 2018
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Why do parabolas' arms eventually become parallel?
Sep 6, 2016
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Using trig identity to solve a cubic equation
Aug 30, 2016
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Find the Galois group of $x^3-2$ over the field $\mathbb F_5$
Aug 22, 2016
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Euclid's Elements missing axiom of M. Pasch examples
Aug 23, 2016
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Meaning of the sign of a complex number
Jul 4, 2018
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The sigma function (sum of divisors) multiplicative proof
Sep 30, 2016
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Let $K$ be a Galois extension of $F$ with $[K/F] = n$. If $p$ is a prime divisor of $n$, show that there is a subfield $L$ of $K$ with $[K:L] = p$
Jun 26, 2018
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Example of a very simple math statement in old literature which is (verbatim) a pain to understand
Aug 15, 2016
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$f(x) \text{ irreducible in } R[x] \iff f(ax+b) \text{ irreducible in } R[x] $
Aug 23, 2016
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