Likelihood of being accepted to top PhD programs without an interview?
Do all accepted students in top-tier engineering programs get invited to interview before getting admitted?
I'm writing a report, in LaTeX. And I need to include, as appendices, other latex documents I have written. I am currently doing this using pdfpages and it works. However, the inserted PDF has no page numbers and it overlays my base documents page numbering, resulting in no page numbers on the PDF pages. My questions:   How to solve the above problem. Is there a better way to do this. Last months I have lots of referrer spammers in my GA statistics. Their count is ~10x higher than count of legit visitors (my site is not very popular yet). I've turned on an option to hide known spammers in GA settings, but it didn't help at all. It seems these spammers are using scripts to spam directly to GA (i.e. they are not logged in my IIS).  Is there anything I can do to stop these spammers?    UPD 10 months later, and they started spamming using fake target page names... and Google is still doing nothing about it. 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Let $T(n,x)$ be the nth Chebyshev polynomial of the first kind and let $U(n-1,x)$ the $(n-1)$th Chebyshev polynomial of the second kind. Would any one kindly help show that   1) $n$ is prime iff $T(n,x)$ is irreducible in $\mathbb{Z}[x]$.  2) $n$ is prime iff $U(n-1,x)$, expressed in powers of $(x^2-1)$, is irreducible in $\mathbb{Z}[x]$.   Many Thanks!!    No "ordering" is implied here. The wording of the question was done in similar fashion  as any question in any math/research question. I do not see how a person who is asking for help would be ordering people to help.   Any way back to the topic,  For the first part of the question, I noticed that if n is prime, then T(n,x) satisfies  Eisenstein's Irreducibility Criterion. But I am not sure how to show if T(n,x) is irreducible then n is prime. What is a StackOverflowError? If $a$ and $b$ are two roots of $x^4 + x^3 - 1 = 0$ prove that $ab$ is a root of $x^6 + x^4 + x^3 - x^2 - 1$. 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