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15 Dec 2025, 3:26 pm

Statistical mechanics



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16 Dec 2025, 3:02 am

Topological space


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16 Dec 2025, 6:57 am

Unbounded interval


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16 Dec 2025, 7:00 am

ultrafilter



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16 Dec 2025, 7:03 am

Oops.

I'm too tired to change it.

In apology, I would like to leave my all-time favorite quote about Mathematics:

“Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



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16 Dec 2025, 10:21 am

vector quantity



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16 Dec 2025, 12:45 pm

Weighted average


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17 Dec 2025, 5:00 am

Xi - as in Riemann Xi Function


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17 Dec 2025, 5:06 am

Young's Modulus



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17 Dec 2025, 5:14 am

zeta - finding uses is a exercise for the reader (as they sometimes say in maths books)


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17 Dec 2025, 6:02 am

axiom of choice



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17 Dec 2025, 8:09 am

bisect - divide a line etc into 2.


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17 Dec 2025, 10:15 am

Cylindrical coordinates



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17 Dec 2025, 10:21 am

Discriminant: The part of the quadratic formula ( b^{2}-4ac)


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17 Dec 2025, 11:04 am

Euclidian geometry


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17 Dec 2025, 1:03 pm

Fermat's last theorem