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High School List of Online Calculators for Math, Physics, Earth and Other Curiosities
- fresh_42
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Graduate What Topics Do These Math FAQs Cover?
- Greg Bernhardt
- Apr 8, 2015 Replies 6 Jun 22, 2017
Undergrad Prove that 1 + NOT (1 + NOT x) = x
- lemonfrostt
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Undergrad How to find the sum of this series?
- Rick16
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High School Uncertain about part of the Order of Operations, from a formula
- symbolipoint
- Aug 8, 2026 Replies 5 Aug 9, 2026
High School Why simplifying this function generates different outputs for same input?
- gen x
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Undergrad Is infinity a necessary concept?
- FermisPairOfDucks
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Undergrad Descartes Geometry of Square Roots
- bob012345
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Undergrad Meaning of division by non-whole real numbers
- logicgate
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Undergrad Solving the chess game (quantum computer wise)
- loop quantum gravity
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An intuition I had about infinite numbers -- Is it valid?
- mr3000
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High School Having trouble understanding the incompleteness theorem
- BadgerBadger92
- Jul 2, 2026 Replies 4 Jul 5, 2026
Insights AI Enriched Problem Solving
- Greg Bernhardt
- Feb 28, 2026 Replies 30 Jul 2, 2026
Undergrad Age problem from Mathematical Conundrums
- Curious Kev
- Jan 7, 2025 Replies 38 Jun 26, 2026
High School Why does continuity still feel weird?
- RicoGerogi
- Jun 14, 2026 Replies 21 Jun 17, 2026
Undergrad Limit behaviour of Fibonacci sequence
- PeroK
- Jun 7, 2026 Replies 4 Jun 12, 2026
High School Geometry Puzzle: Cut The Figure to Make Two Identical Parts
- bob012345
- Jun 5, 2026 Replies 21 Jun 9, 2026
Graduate Is my reasoning sound for challenging this exploratory analysis?
- mattmaci
- Jun 6, 2026 Replies 5 Jun 7, 2026
High School Kilometers to Miles Numerology
- kuruman
- Jun 6, 2026 Replies 6 Jun 6, 2026
High School Does this equation (Einsteins field equations in general relativity) equal 12?
- BadgerBadger92
- May 30, 2026 Replies 33 Jun 5, 2026
Undergrad The natural numbers and logical consequences of them
- mr3000
- May 25, 2026 Replies 18 Jun 2, 2026
Undergrad Semi-Circles Within a Circle
- bob012345
- May 29, 2026 Replies 6 May 30, 2026
Undergrad Why should we need to re-prove theorems that have been proved already?
- Mike_bb
- May 29, 2026 Replies 3 May 29, 2026
High School Ant on a stretchy rope puzzle
- DaveC426913
- Mar 14, 2026 Replies 38 May 29, 2026
Undergrad Is this proof "by contradiction" or "by contrapositive"?
- Hill
- May 10, 2026 Replies 7 May 12, 2026
Undergrad Infinity and 0 (null set) do not exist
- MDH72
- May 8, 2026 Replies 14 May 9, 2026
Undergrad A Very Gentle Approach to Thinking About Hyperspheres
- bob012345
- May 4, 2026 Replies 11 May 6, 2026
High School Multiplication and Division by Numerical "Trituration"
- dom_quixote
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High School Distance between points on two circles
- LucKy
- May 4, 2026 Replies 3 May 4, 2026
High School Four Circle Problem
- bob012345
- Apr 22, 2026 Replies 9 Apr 30, 2026
Challenge MIT Announces the Largest Collection of Olympiad Math Problems
- jedishrfu
- Apr 27, 2026 Replies 2 Apr 29, 2026
Graduate A neat fact regarding Cauchy problems for infinite systems
- wrobel
- Apr 13, 2026 Replies 3 Apr 24, 2026
High School Example of a model for a function
- Ssnow
- Apr 19, 2026 Replies 6 Apr 21, 2026
High School This One Moved Me
- bhobba
- Apr 7, 2026 Replies 12 Apr 12, 2026
High School Abel Prize awarded, 2026, to Gerd Faltings
- WWGD
- Mar 30, 2026 Replies 1 Apr 1, 2026
Graduate About a natural extension of Collatz conjecture
- coquelicot
- Feb 16, 2026 Replies 3 Mar 24, 2026
High School Potato paradox
- Gavran
- Feb 26, 2026 Replies 28 Mar 3, 2026
High School Three Squares Problem
- bob012345
- Feb 11, 2026 Replies 10 Feb 27, 2026
Undergrad Solving ##a^b## and ##b^a## via the Lambert Function
- jedishrfu
- Feb 24, 2026 Replies 5 Feb 25, 2026
Undergrad When is a^b greater than b^a?
- PeroK
- Feb 23, 2026 Replies 19 Feb 24, 2026
Undergrad Three Circle Problem
- bob012345
- Feb 3, 2026 Replies 14 Feb 20, 2026
Graduate A global version of the implicit function theorem
- wrobel
- Nov 27, 2025 Replies 1 Feb 17, 2026
Geometric Game: Fun With Matches (Safe!)
- bob012345
- Jan 28, 2026 Replies 40 Jan 30, 2026
Undergrad What is the most impactful way of introducing Laplace transforms?
- matqkks
- Jan 22, 2026 Replies 6 Jan 25, 2026
Undergrad Computable sequence of rationals with a noncomputable limit
- Hill
- Jan 20, 2026 Replies 8 Jan 20, 2026
High School The parallel axiom, Stillwell's "Reverse Mathematics"
- Hill
- Jan 12, 2026 Replies 16 Jan 14, 2026
Graduate Open problems and suggestions of great mathematical journals
- V9999
- Nov 25, 2022 Replies 10 Jan 13, 2026
Undergrad Find the Number of Triangles
- bob012345
- Dec 29, 2025 Replies 33 Jan 2, 2026
High School Area of Overlapping Squares
- bob012345
- Dec 6, 2025 Replies 10 Dec 13, 2025
Insights What Exactly is Diracs Delta Function? - Insight
- Greg Bernhardt
- Sep 2, 2025 Replies 33 Dec 6, 2025
Undergrad Trigonometry problem of interest
- Charles Link
- Oct 18, 2025 Replies 81 Dec 4, 2025
High School More similar triangle problems
- DaveC426913
- Jul 21, 2025 Replies 23 Nov 27, 2025
Undergrad Polynomial vs. Exponential time
- senmeis
- Nov 14, 2025 Replies 2 Nov 14, 2025
Undergrad There are only finitely many primes
- martinbn
- Nov 7, 2025 Replies 7 Nov 7, 2025
Undergrad Midpoint(s) of the unbounded number line
- tomwilliam
- Oct 24, 2025 Replies 15 Oct 25, 2025
High School Arithmetic and our place value system
- mark2142
- Oct 22, 2025 Replies 6 Oct 23, 2025
High School Can Six Pencils Be Arranged to Each Touch the Other Five?
- bob012345
- Jul 23, 2025 Replies 30 Oct 21, 2025
Undergrad Video on imaginary numbers and some queries
- PainterGuy
- Nov 9, 2021 Replies 3 Oct 6, 2025
High School Imaginary Pythagoras
- DaveC426913
- Sep 10, 2025 Replies 13 Oct 4, 2025
High School Happy Pythagorean Day!
- Astronuc
- Sep 16, 2025 Replies 8 Sep 22, 2025
Insights Fermat's Last Theorem
- fresh_42
- May 21, 2025 Replies 105 Sep 16, 2025
Undergrad Useless continued fraction for 1
- jostpuur
- Sep 2, 2025 Replies 6 Sep 2, 2025
Undergrad Proving Newton's forward difference interpolation formula
- PLAGUE
- Aug 2, 2025 Replies 1 Sep 1, 2025
Undergrad Geometry problem of interest with a 3-4-5 triangle
- Charles Link
- Jul 21, 2025 Replies 59 Aug 21, 2025
High School What could prove this wrong? I'm having a dispute with friends
- ducknumerouno
- May 7, 2025 Replies 94 Aug 21, 2025
Graduate RIP Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (1923-2025)
- robphy
- Aug 3, 2025 Replies 4 Aug 8, 2025
High School Videos of 4D Die and Sphere
- Hornbein
- Apr 27, 2025 Replies 3 Aug 4, 2025
Graduate Article about 17 year-old math talent
- jasonRF
- Aug 4, 2025 Replies 1 Aug 4, 2025
Undergrad The Mathematical Wizard, A House's Windows, And Solar Flux
- Young101
- Jul 30, 2025 Replies 4 Aug 1, 2025
Graduate Lectures on integral invariants and Hamiltonian equations
- wrobel
- Jul 22, 2025 Replies 16 Jul 31, 2025
Insights Fixing Things Which Can Go Wrong With Complex Numbers
- PAllen
- Jul 20, 2025 Replies 7 Jul 28, 2025
Graduate Recursive pattern in Collatz sequence valuation jumps
- MrHellmet
- Jul 23, 2025 Replies 3 Jul 23, 2025
Undergrad Why fixed point iteration of ##x^3 = 1-x^2## doesn't converge when ##x_0= 0##
- PLAGUE
- Jul 20, 2025 Replies 16 Jul 20, 2025
High School Excel: converting a 3-ish week count into a monthly count
- DaveC426913
- Jun 26, 2025 Replies 15 Jul 7, 2025
High School Geometry Puzzle with 20 points in a cross pattern
- bob012345
- Jun 4, 2025 Replies 31 Jul 2, 2025
High School What is the deepest/most impactful statement that you have ever seen?
- spaceWizard9000
- May 31, 2025 Replies 46 Jun 13, 2025
Undergrad Modeled PF Trophies
- AlexB23
- Jun 6, 2025 Replies 14 Jun 9, 2025
High School Solving equations but getting an identity - what mistakes were made?
- farfromdaijoubu
- Jun 1, 2025 Replies 4 Jun 2, 2025
High School About a definition: What is the number of terms of a polynomial P(x)?
- littlemathquark
- May 12, 2025 Replies 48 May 31, 2025
High School "Land capture" graph paper game
- DaveC426913
- May 18, 2025 Replies 13 May 19, 2025
High School In a triangle, is the angle between the points of contact of the inscribed circle with the sides 120 degrees?
- Antoha1
- May 11, 2025 Replies 2 May 11, 2025
High School How do you multiply fractions again? My brain just froze
- goodcomfort
- May 7, 2025 Replies 2 May 7, 2025
Undergrad How to convince someone that an event repeating an infinite number of times does not guarantee every outcome?
- sairoof
- Apr 16, 2025 Replies 23 May 6, 2025
Undergrad Can Angular Velocity Accurately Control Ragdoll Limbs in Game Physics?
- MadAce
- Jul 3, 2023 Replies 6 May 6, 2025
Undergrad ##x\lt y \lt z## positive integer numbers and if ##\dfrac 1x+\dfrac 1y+\dfrac 1z=\dfrac 13##
- littlemathquark
- Apr 30, 2025 Replies 6 May 2, 2025
High School How Many Straight Lines to Connect an N by M Array of Points in a Closed Loop?
- bob012345
- Apr 12, 2025 Replies 25 Apr 25, 2025
High School The Pitcher's Mound
- Hornbein
- Apr 20, 2025 Replies 10 Apr 22, 2025
High School Is It Better to Run or Walk in the Rain?
- Pikkugnome
- Nov 10, 2024 Replies 46 Apr 19, 2025
Undergrad How were "e" and "pi" found?
- mayflowers
- Mar 29, 2025 Replies 26 Apr 18, 2025
Undergrad How was this substitution possible?
- InDireNeedOfHelp
- Apr 17, 2025 Replies 5 Apr 17, 2025
High School Are there English names for these formulas? (binomial formulas)
- Trysse
- Nov 14, 2024 Replies 42 Apr 11, 2025
High School 1lb cube of 99% pure copper?
- Coulin
- Dec 4, 2024 Replies 10 Apr 7, 2025
High School Which conditions should I check to see if a quadrilateral is a square?
- murshid_islam
- Dec 2, 2024 Replies 17 Mar 29, 2025
Graduate !?Puzzle?! -Possible Clue- Split the Difference
- Andrew153
- Mar 26, 2025 Replies 12 Mar 27, 2025
High School Law of sines gives 77 but the angle should be 103
- mcastillo356
- Mar 22, 2025 Replies 70 Mar 26, 2025
High School How to prove this for every Arithmetic Progression?
- tellmesomething
- Mar 19, 2025 Replies 12 Mar 26, 2025
High School Given an equation, find the value of this expression
- littlemathquark
- Mar 13, 2025 Replies 17 Mar 17, 2025
Happy Pi Day!
- diogenesNY
- Mar 14, 2025 Replies 4 Mar 15, 2025
High School Applications and problems with the Pythagorean theorem
- wrong thunder
- Feb 28, 2025 Replies 38 Mar 13, 2025
Undergrad Billard balls on table
- littlemathquark
- Mar 3, 2025 Replies 10 Mar 10, 2025
Undergrad How is the Euclid Math Contest marked?
- Euthenia
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High School Estimating ##\pi## with darts
- jack action
- Feb 25, 2025 Replies 15 Mar 3, 2025
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