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.
scalar multiplication. noun. 1. (maths) an operation used in the definition of a vector space in which the product of a scalar and a vector is a vector, the operation is distributive over the addition of both scalars and vectors, and is associative with multiplication of scalars.