Diabetes happens when one of the following occurs: 1  When the pancreas does not produce any insulin. 2  When the pancreas produces very little insulin. 3  When the body does not respond appropriately to insulin, a condition called insulin resistance..
Vector Calculus: Understanding the Dot Product. Think of the dot product as directional multiplication. Multiplication goes beyond repeated counting: it's applying the essence of one item to another. Complex multiplication combines rotations.
In mathematics, scalar multiplication is one of the basic operations defining a vector space in linear algebra (or more generally, a module in abstract algebra).