Hi, can you pitch in a bit on this article I started. Thanks: -- Sadi Carnot 17:45, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
Hi Linas, you generated images such as Image:Lioville-big.svg for the Pólya conjecture article. There are two counterexamples given in this article. I think it'd be a good idea to also include images of L(n) for 1 <= n <= 109 or maybe 107 <= n <= 109 so one can actually "see" a disproof, as the counterexamples are within this range. What do you think?
Bye, -- Abdull 11:19, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
Hi! At your GLE page ( http://linas.org/gle/) you mention "shapeshifter" which is a (now defunct?) port of GLE to java. As I was hoping to use GLE with JOGL ( https://jogl.dev.java.net/) and not write my own jni wrappers/or swig stuff, maybe you have an old copy lying around you could put to the site? Thanks for all the great software, even if you do nothing but delete this message! Best, User:24.185.108.100 on 11 June 2007
Hi, you told half(L) is regular is bogus, I think it is valid. I'ven't edited the page though. atul 15:45, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
Hello Linas,
When implementing Wrike, we gave a favor to JBoss and PostreSQL, and we are very happy that we selected open source. Thanks to you and other people who promote open source and help the world. We would really appreciate if you could cover Wrike in your Project Management section. We try to democratize enterprise project management software and bring costs from hundreds of thousands of dollars to cheap ($5/month) or even free subscriptions. What’s interesting is that originally the tool was built as a project management tool, but because of its collaborative power and simplicity, our users also use it for bug-tracking and CRM. BTW, as a software professional, you might want to try Wrike’s bug-tracking for your own pleasure. Next time you see a bug, create an e-mail to wrike@wrike.com, include [Bugs] in the beginning of subject, write bug synopsis in the subject, and paste bug screenshot in a body. Hit “send”, and that’s it. A lot of our friends find this really usable. User:84.204.179.134 on 18 June 2007
Hi! Recently, I was looking at the logarithmic integral function and found that you have actually plotted a graph for it. Could you tell me how you did this?-- Vbatz 14:15, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
Dear Linas
My name is Sergiy Koshkin and I am a postdoc at Northwestern. This was meant to be an email but since you no longer accept them... My email is
I read your interesting paper on Plouffe-Ramanujan identities. My question is what can be said concerning inversion property for P_k when k is even. Clearly, it can not be as clean as for odd k since the Mellin transform \Gamma(z)\zeta(z+k)\zeta(z) has infinitely many poles on the left. I am interested because these functions appear in combinatorics and string theory. For instance, the logarithm of MacMahon partition function M(q):=\prod_{n=1}^\infty(1-q^n)^{-n} is qd/dq derivative of P_2(q). Although P_k with negative integer k are the classical Eisenstein series as you point out, it does not appear that anyone studied the even case. There are reasons to believe (mirror symmetry heuristics) that these functions do have some kind of asymptotic modularity, i.e. inversion property that applies to asymptotic expansions at the cusps (roots of unity in q). For example, it seems obvious that M(q) has the unit circle as the natural boundary but I do not see how to prove it without a transformation property. I wonder if anyone thought about this.
Let me also point out that the inversion property for P_k (your theorem 5.1) is known. Apostol proved it in 1950 for the corresponding Lambert series, Iseki gave a different proof in 1957, and finally Apostol gave another in 1964 using Mellin transforms (without calling them by name), very similar to yours. The main difference I think is that he regularizes the series before taking the transform to make the exponentially small contour integral (your D) vanish and then takes a limit to get the original series. It is reproduced in his book Modular Forms..., Section 3.3.5 but the presentation is so murky he would have been better of just reprinting the 1964 paper. Your account is much more illuminating. Actor (1994) does the Dedekind eta-function only but uses the same method as you. I would attach pdf copies of the papers but I do not know how to do it here.
I did not protect anyone's page. Crum375 02:55, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
SlimVirgin's talk page is semiprotected. I, not she, semiprotected it, because of harassment. It is possible for registered users to post there. If you post harassing messages, particularly messages that speculate on her identity, or messages about websites that speculate on her identity, you will be blocked. ElinorD (talk) 19:44, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
Hi,
I saw some cool posts on Wikipedia by Linus and would like a perosnal email address to ask soem Qs.
my addy is
maric ~dot* 2 $at# osu )dot! edu
Thanks! Tony
You're about to be passed [1] ;-) Paul August ☎ 03:22, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
Regarding [3]: I have pasted the contents at User:Linas/CG tools. The text may be a copyright infringement, so it should probably be deleted when you are done with it. — Centrx→ talk • 03:15, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
The September 2007 issue of the WikiProject History of Science newsletter has been published. You're receiving this because you are a participant in the History of Science WikiProject. You may read the newsletter or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Yours in discourse-- ragesoss 00:37, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
Template:Sustainability and Energy Development has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. User:Chriswaterguy on 13 oct 2007
Thank you for improving that article :) -- Daniele Gallesio 15:59, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
I just read on your home page at linas.com what you had to say about Bush and the corruption in the United States, and thought that you might want to look at http://home.absolute.net/xode/nwofraud/Bankruptcy_Fraud/Bankfraud1.htm
Please take a look at that documentation and let me know what you think. You can contact me at my email address at xode@netzero.net (better) or put a reply on my wikipedia user talk page (no so good) since I don't check wikipedia very often.
Xode ( talk) 20:37, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
Linas, I noticed your comment at the Deletion Review log for the Erdos Numbers Category, and the (rhetorical?) question about where to protest the result. I'm slowly developing a case for Arbitration (RfA); see developing case in my user space. One of the excuses for suspending the deletion review (which I had initiated, and which was going better than 2-1 in favor of overturning the deletion) was the charge that I had campaigned excessively (there was one (maybe two, depending how you count) ANI (Admin notices/incidents board) about me on account of it). They swamped an upswelling of concerned contributors with wiki-legalism. (Two Category For Deltion, CfD, discussions had been 2-1 in favor of "keep" before the third, also 2-1 in favor of keep, got closed for Delete by an admin plainly ignoring the consensus; before I got involved myself.)
Feel free to help. It's a huge problem, the evidence is votes and statements and chronologies spanning many many talk pages, CfD, Del Rev, and ANI. Pete St.John ( talk) 18:25, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
Oh, by the way, I do applaud your effort to put a case together for the Erdos debate. I have no particular opinion on the category itself; I do, however, despise not only the meddling, but also the excessively fast timelines for action, and the repeated threats from the admins. Yes, I too, like you, I see, occasionally get threatened with explusion or banning when I rub some jerk admin the wrong way. The fact that I've been here longer, have made more edits (and more friends?), and have had a (mostly) peaceful and happy co-existence doesn't matter; the mauruders do come visit. linas ( talk) 04:24, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
It would seem you are talking to the wrong person - I am neither the person who nominated that template, nor am I the one who closed the debate. Might I also point out that accusing people of malice is not going to win you any friends? >Radiant< 19:17, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
Hey Linas, Radiant has a point. Not much can be achieved by insults, usually they just complicate finding a solution. (BTW, I have no idea what the matter at hand actually is, I am just commenting in general for the need for civility.) Oleg Alexandrov ( talk) 05:48, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi, can you pitch in a bit on this article I started. Thanks: -- Sadi Carnot 17:45, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
Hi Linas, you generated images such as Image:Lioville-big.svg for the Pólya conjecture article. There are two counterexamples given in this article. I think it'd be a good idea to also include images of L(n) for 1 <= n <= 109 or maybe 107 <= n <= 109 so one can actually "see" a disproof, as the counterexamples are within this range. What do you think?
Bye, -- Abdull 11:19, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
Hi! At your GLE page ( http://linas.org/gle/) you mention "shapeshifter" which is a (now defunct?) port of GLE to java. As I was hoping to use GLE with JOGL ( https://jogl.dev.java.net/) and not write my own jni wrappers/or swig stuff, maybe you have an old copy lying around you could put to the site? Thanks for all the great software, even if you do nothing but delete this message! Best, User:24.185.108.100 on 11 June 2007
Hi, you told half(L) is regular is bogus, I think it is valid. I'ven't edited the page though. atul 15:45, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
Hello Linas,
When implementing Wrike, we gave a favor to JBoss and PostreSQL, and we are very happy that we selected open source. Thanks to you and other people who promote open source and help the world. We would really appreciate if you could cover Wrike in your Project Management section. We try to democratize enterprise project management software and bring costs from hundreds of thousands of dollars to cheap ($5/month) or even free subscriptions. What’s interesting is that originally the tool was built as a project management tool, but because of its collaborative power and simplicity, our users also use it for bug-tracking and CRM. BTW, as a software professional, you might want to try Wrike’s bug-tracking for your own pleasure. Next time you see a bug, create an e-mail to wrike@wrike.com, include [Bugs] in the beginning of subject, write bug synopsis in the subject, and paste bug screenshot in a body. Hit “send”, and that’s it. A lot of our friends find this really usable. User:84.204.179.134 on 18 June 2007
Hi! Recently, I was looking at the logarithmic integral function and found that you have actually plotted a graph for it. Could you tell me how you did this?-- Vbatz 14:15, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
Dear Linas
My name is Sergiy Koshkin and I am a postdoc at Northwestern. This was meant to be an email but since you no longer accept them... My email is
I read your interesting paper on Plouffe-Ramanujan identities. My question is what can be said concerning inversion property for P_k when k is even. Clearly, it can not be as clean as for odd k since the Mellin transform \Gamma(z)\zeta(z+k)\zeta(z) has infinitely many poles on the left. I am interested because these functions appear in combinatorics and string theory. For instance, the logarithm of MacMahon partition function M(q):=\prod_{n=1}^\infty(1-q^n)^{-n} is qd/dq derivative of P_2(q). Although P_k with negative integer k are the classical Eisenstein series as you point out, it does not appear that anyone studied the even case. There are reasons to believe (mirror symmetry heuristics) that these functions do have some kind of asymptotic modularity, i.e. inversion property that applies to asymptotic expansions at the cusps (roots of unity in q). For example, it seems obvious that M(q) has the unit circle as the natural boundary but I do not see how to prove it without a transformation property. I wonder if anyone thought about this.
Let me also point out that the inversion property for P_k (your theorem 5.1) is known. Apostol proved it in 1950 for the corresponding Lambert series, Iseki gave a different proof in 1957, and finally Apostol gave another in 1964 using Mellin transforms (without calling them by name), very similar to yours. The main difference I think is that he regularizes the series before taking the transform to make the exponentially small contour integral (your D) vanish and then takes a limit to get the original series. It is reproduced in his book Modular Forms..., Section 3.3.5 but the presentation is so murky he would have been better of just reprinting the 1964 paper. Your account is much more illuminating. Actor (1994) does the Dedekind eta-function only but uses the same method as you. I would attach pdf copies of the papers but I do not know how to do it here.
I did not protect anyone's page. Crum375 02:55, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
SlimVirgin's talk page is semiprotected. I, not she, semiprotected it, because of harassment. It is possible for registered users to post there. If you post harassing messages, particularly messages that speculate on her identity, or messages about websites that speculate on her identity, you will be blocked. ElinorD (talk) 19:44, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
Hi,
I saw some cool posts on Wikipedia by Linus and would like a perosnal email address to ask soem Qs.
my addy is
maric ~dot* 2 $at# osu )dot! edu
Thanks! Tony
You're about to be passed [1] ;-) Paul August ☎ 03:22, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
Regarding [3]: I have pasted the contents at User:Linas/CG tools. The text may be a copyright infringement, so it should probably be deleted when you are done with it. — Centrx→ talk • 03:15, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
The September 2007 issue of the WikiProject History of Science newsletter has been published. You're receiving this because you are a participant in the History of Science WikiProject. You may read the newsletter or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Yours in discourse-- ragesoss 00:37, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
Template:Sustainability and Energy Development has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. User:Chriswaterguy on 13 oct 2007
Thank you for improving that article :) -- Daniele Gallesio 15:59, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
I just read on your home page at linas.com what you had to say about Bush and the corruption in the United States, and thought that you might want to look at http://home.absolute.net/xode/nwofraud/Bankruptcy_Fraud/Bankfraud1.htm
Please take a look at that documentation and let me know what you think. You can contact me at my email address at xode@netzero.net (better) or put a reply on my wikipedia user talk page (no so good) since I don't check wikipedia very often.
Xode ( talk) 20:37, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
Linas, I noticed your comment at the Deletion Review log for the Erdos Numbers Category, and the (rhetorical?) question about where to protest the result. I'm slowly developing a case for Arbitration (RfA); see developing case in my user space. One of the excuses for suspending the deletion review (which I had initiated, and which was going better than 2-1 in favor of overturning the deletion) was the charge that I had campaigned excessively (there was one (maybe two, depending how you count) ANI (Admin notices/incidents board) about me on account of it). They swamped an upswelling of concerned contributors with wiki-legalism. (Two Category For Deltion, CfD, discussions had been 2-1 in favor of "keep" before the third, also 2-1 in favor of keep, got closed for Delete by an admin plainly ignoring the consensus; before I got involved myself.)
Feel free to help. It's a huge problem, the evidence is votes and statements and chronologies spanning many many talk pages, CfD, Del Rev, and ANI. Pete St.John ( talk) 18:25, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
Oh, by the way, I do applaud your effort to put a case together for the Erdos debate. I have no particular opinion on the category itself; I do, however, despise not only the meddling, but also the excessively fast timelines for action, and the repeated threats from the admins. Yes, I too, like you, I see, occasionally get threatened with explusion or banning when I rub some jerk admin the wrong way. The fact that I've been here longer, have made more edits (and more friends?), and have had a (mostly) peaceful and happy co-existence doesn't matter; the mauruders do come visit. linas ( talk) 04:24, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
It would seem you are talking to the wrong person - I am neither the person who nominated that template, nor am I the one who closed the debate. Might I also point out that accusing people of malice is not going to win you any friends? >Radiant< 19:17, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
Hey Linas, Radiant has a point. Not much can be achieved by insults, usually they just complicate finding a solution. (BTW, I have no idea what the matter at hand actually is, I am just commenting in general for the need for civility.) Oleg Alexandrov ( talk) 05:48, 15 December 2007 (UTC)