I think it is important to note that the original of the real numbers section of the cantor's diagonal argument page is poorly written, with too much time focused on trivial detail, and poor English used to explain the crux of the argument. You can't be serious with me being to formalistic! It's important to use the correct language when talking about math! Anyway, I spent time fixing an unreadable section. Alsosaid1987 ( talk) 02:09, 14 February 2017 (UTC)
I laughed out loud reading your post about reverting the code inserted into the prime numbers article.... I fell out of my chair when I actually saw the code.... The fact that the guy wanted to solve the Goldbach conjecture with that... RockvilleRideOn ( talk) 03:48, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
I saw your talk on 'Fourier transform'. If you have time, could you just explain a little more on normalization problem? Or state in the page so reader could be aware of this. Thanks. Allenleeshining ( talk) 17:34, 4 January 2013 (UTC) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Fourier_transform#Suspect_wrong_equations_in_section_.27Square-integrable_functions.27
Hi Sławo, I fixed some math formatting in the Taylor's series section, which you have reverted to the original. I didn't realize I had to justify this as the changes were obviously typographical from the diff output. cerniagigante ( talk) 01:09, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
Hi Sławomir Biały. Following your correction. How can you explain the following identity:
My calculus will be
This way I get to the final result of instead of
Please correct me if I'm wrong — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lupflamind ( talk • contribs) 15:10, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi Sławomir Biały. It's fine if you want to change the name however I would not pick the name "Uniform convergence in a topological vector space" since there is after all a concept in general topology about uniform convergence (i.e. uniformities) that in particular applies to all TVSs. Maybe change it to "Topologies of Uniform Convergence on Vector Spaces of Maps"? Also, I do have a very general introduction but that's because otherwise the same concepts would have to continuously reappear throughout the subsection. Mgkrupa ( talk) 16:13, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
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I responded to your question at the Math reference desk at Wikipedia:Reference desk/Mathematics#Penrose tiles puzzle pieces. Best. -- Toshio Yamaguchi 13:00, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
Hello. Why article Sergey Zonenko seen at "being considered for deletion"? Whay we can fix that article was not removed? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ogeldke ( talk • contribs) 11:42, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
I saw the wiki page, but I couldn't find any examples using actual numbers evaluating the formula. Could you give some examples of convolution, please? Mathijs Krijzer ( talk) 22:14, 9 March 2013 (UTC)
The convolution of f and g is written f∗g, using an asterisk or star. It is defined as the integral of the product of the two functions after one is reversed and shifted. As such, it is a particular kind of integral transform:
The convolution of two complex-valued functions on Rd
is well-defined only if f and g decay sufficiently rapidly at infinity in order for the integral to exist. Conditions for the existence of the convolution may be tricky, since a blow-up in g at infinity can be easily offset by sufficiently rapid decay in f. The question of existence thus may involve different conditions on f and g.
When a function gN is periodic, with period N, then for functions, f, such that f∗gN exists, the convolution is also periodic and identical to:
When a function gT is periodic, with period T, then for functions, f, such that f∗gT exists, the convolution is also periodic and identical to:
where to is an arbitrary choice. The summation is called a periodic summation of the function f.
For complex-valued functions f, g defined on the set Z of integers, the discrete convolution of f and g is given by:
When multiplying two polynomials, the coefficients of the product are given by the convolution of the original coefficient sequences, extended with zeros where necessary to avoid undefined terms; this is known as the Cauchy product of the coefficients of the two polynomials.
I saw your post at WP:VPT. It appears that WP:UTRS is currently down due to toolserver problems. Your best bet is to try Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations#Quick CheckUser requests. Thanks, EdJohnston ( talk) 04:13, 13 April 2013 (UTC)
Hello, Sławomir, I replied to you last comment here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_deletion/Axiom_of_global_choice Eozhik ( talk) 06:07, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
[1] No. You apparently do not understand the difference between the ring Z of integer numbers, which is a specific ring, and the ring of integers OK of a number field K, not a specific ring but a functor from fields(?) to commutative rings. Of course, the ring of integers of p-adic numbers contains some extra elements which Z does not have. Incnis Mrsi ( talk) 06:18, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
Being "semi-retired" here, you could be welcome there. Boris Tsirelson ( talk) 07:23, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
If you feel that way inclined, I'd appreciate a quick "yes" or "no" at Talk:Transpose#Transpose_of_linear_maps: why defined in terms of a bilinear form?. — Quondum 14:17, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
Thank you very much for your answers to my question. I've learned many from you. Could you please make some comments on my newly posted words about the angle in Wikipedia:Reference desk/Mathematics? Thanks. Armeria wiki ( talk) 03:38, 13 June 2013 (UTC)
Dear Sławomir, Thanks for your comments and your interest for the Banach space article. I certainly agree with your comments, and I reply here because what I want to say is a bit personal. Actually, I would like some help of yours on the following points:
With best wishes, Bdmy ( talk) 12:59, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
Re your edit here http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia_talk%3AWikiProject_Environment&diff=563829950&oldid=563780784
Sorry didn't mean it like that. I just thought that whole conversation was rather long and nothing to do with the talk page and had many insults and ad hominem attacks plus defences against those attacks - and thought it would be tedious reading for others. I hid lots of my own content as well with those tags. I have nothing to hide, just thought the whole conversation would be off topic for most readers.
But am probably not the best one to make a decision of what should be hidden if any :) Robert Walker ( talk) 16:29, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi. Just letting you know I've quoted a diff of yours at ArbCom in the Mars case. Someone not using his real name ( talk) 17:39, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Mathematics/2013 July 6#Convergence and Closed Form Expression. — 79.113.213.214 ( talk) 00:10, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi,
I am writing in response to your reversal regarding the dot product notation in Hilbert space:
I understand your point, and don't object to the reversal. Maybe I should have discussed the notation before editing, I apologize.
However, I feel that your argument comes more from a programming notion of vectors than from a mathematical point of view. In fact, to me vectors (of the same vector space) in the mathematical sense don't have types, so the fact that a vector is represented with a column syntax or a row syntax does not change the vector to which that syntax refers.
This said, it is true that row or column syntax of vectors does affect the kind and the order of the operations that may be performed on them. But this is only a matter of representation, not of "vector type". To me, writing the dot product in euclidean spaces as a product of matrices feels more natural, because it follows the laws of matrix multiplication. For other definitions of the dot product usually the angle bracket notation <·, ·> is preferred.
So, to conclude, I would like to ask if the current notation is a standard, or if there are any reasons to prefer it over matrix multiplication notation. If so, could you please provide any references?
Thank you very much, Elferdo ( talk) 13:49, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
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Generalizing is usually good in mathematics. Talking about real or complex only numbers looks awkward, specially when this holds also for function over finite fields. AgadaUrbanit ( talk) 23:51, 4 September 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for commenting on the AdS/CFT article. I just wanted to let you know that I've made some changes in response to your comments. Let me know if it's what you wanted. Thanks again. Polytope24 ( talk) 01:16, 27 October 2013 (UTC)
Hi,
I notice that ypou just reverted a fix I attempted on tensor product of Hilbert spaces. I made the fix mostly because I could not parse the formula there as written, and tried to replace it with something close to the original intent. FWIW, I made exactly the same change to tensor product. Basiclly, the issue is that the arrow w.r.t. the element of symbol: if x^* is an element of H^* then what the heck does x^* \to x^*(x_1)x_2 mean? The intent seemed to be to use a mapto not a \to. Or perhaps the orig author meant H_1^* \to x^*(x_1)x_2 but this doesn't make much sense either. I'm going to copy this over to the talk page there. Thanks. User:Linas ( talk) 14:06, 23 November 2013 (UTC)
This seems to jump the shark a bit, even though it ultimately produces the correct result. It would be nice if my method could be justified by complex analysis.-- Jasper Deng (talk) 20:31, 20 December 2013 (UTC)
I do not understand your revert of my edit in dot product. I understand that you consider that "dot product" has to be used for coordinate vectors, and "inner product" refers to Euclidean vector spaces. This is not the convention used presently in this article. More specifically, the sections "Geometric definition", and "Scalar projection and the equivalence of the definitions" are about inner product (called here "dot product") of Euclidean vector spaces. Before my edit and after your revert, the section "Scalar projection and the equivalence of the definitions" passes suddenly from Euclidean vectors to the standard basis of Rn without saying that this can not be done without choosing an orthogonal basis of the Euclidean vector space. This is not only confusing (see the recent good faith edits by an IP user and my comment on his talk page), but mathematically incorrect. My edit was intended to restore mathematical correctness. I agree that the article needs further edits for clarifying the terminology, splitting the section "Scalar projection and the equivalence of the definitions" into "Scalar projection", "Properties" (bilinearity) and "Equivalence", etc. But, in any case, mathematical correctness comes before accurate terminology. Therefore, I'll revert your revert, hoping that you or someone else will clarify the terminology, and adapt accordingly the articles dot product and inner product space. I cannot do it myself, because, for me, "dot product", "scalar product" and "inner product" are synonyms (by the way, the term "dot product" does not exist in French, and "produit intérieur", the equivalent of "inner product", is rarely used; this is not a problem). D.Lazard ( talk) 15:19, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
For readabiliy it is a good idea to separate out the history section. Also you reverted the fix for the "passive voice" weird grammar used.
"Taylor's theorem is named after the mathematician Brook Taylor, who stated a version of it in 1712. Yet, an explicit expression of the error was provided much later on by Joseph-Louis Lagrange. An earlier version of the result is already mentioned in 1671 by James Gregory.[1]"
There is an implicit statement here that Brook Taylors version did not have an error term. Implicit statements are not very readable because they create doubt in the readers mind. In my mind the above writing would be unacceptable for a primary school student. It is affected and pretentious. You could have corrected what you saw as wrong, but you chose just to roll it back. I will not play revert wars with you. Do as you will. Large numbers of mathematics articles are burdened with affected and pretentious language, which makes them inaccessible for the average reader. The wiki is not just for experts. It is a general encyclopedia. Of course expertise will always be valued, but effective communication is just as important.
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I was thinking you could help answer this question that I asked in lieu of a proper tensor calculus/algebra or differential geometry textbook.-- Jasper Deng (talk) 04:57, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
Hey. Thanks for correcting any mistakes that I did there. Just want to know how do you decided that 'are the central object in complex analysis ' goes first than the actual meaning of the term?
I accept i missed correcting grammar there, but i think 'In mathematics' is good enough context for a topic like holomorphic functions.
for reference, https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Holomorphic_function&oldid=599710410&diff=prev
Mittgaurav ( talk) 04:30, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
cool. makes sense. thanks! Mittgaurav ( talk) 16:54, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
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I think I have references to back it up, except for the conclusion (reps are faithful), but these references are 500 km away at the moment. The Wikipedia articles don't suffice. I'd appreciate your help. YohanN7 ( talk) 16:33, 21 April 2014 (UTC)
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Hi, I am sorry not to give reasons for my edit of Beal's Conjecture's known cases, but the room allowed there did not make a response possible. I am fairly new to Wikipedia, and am not sure if this is the appropriate place to give the reason, but I will. The paper cited does claim a proof of the (n,n,3) case, but does not make it explicit because it is so immediately apparent from how it is stated there. In fact, for this reason, it is not likely that a published paper will make this explicit. If n>2, then k divides n, where k is prime or 4. If A and B are part of a counterexample with exponents (n,n,3), then they can be raised to the power of n divided by k and therefore pertain to a counterexample of the form (k,k,3), contradicting the results as explicitly stated in the cited paper. By the same reasoning, in the (n,n,2) case for n not a 2 power or 3, n is divisible by 6, 9, or some prime greater than 3, and this factor can be taken as k in an argument like the one above. This is not a new result, just a less than clearly result already attained as stated in the paper already cited. However, I assume the author expected serious researchers in the area of the conjecture (the intended audience of the paper), would immediately see these claims as included therein. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kyle1009 ( talk • contribs) 18:33, 19 June 2014 (UTC)
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I have to say this.
The comment "Fine. If three PhDs agree that a "mass density" or "charge density" is not a density at all, clearly they must be right." you made to our crank over at the talk page wasn't very nice considering he seems to be a harmless crank with bad self-esteem. Now not only he, but also his professors are declared idiots in his mind now. I'm sure he's walking around talking about this. I actually feel sorry for him.
Besides, you are wrong, experienced professor or not, this time you are wrong. All densities are densities with the other convention as well, just stick to one convention per calculation and you'll be fine.
This is what I meant by a measure of religiosity on your part. No doubt JRSpriggs is even more religious. I'm actually very surprised. YohanN7 ( talk) 05:14, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
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Just so you are aware: I responded to your assertion on Talk:Compact space with a concrete example (i.e. the case of a non-Abelian distance metric, for which your interpretation would be false). — Preceding unsigned comment added by TricksterWolf ( talk • contribs) 14:49, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
We seem to be in a minor edit war on the Spinor page. I have been editing the spinor on and off for years trying not too step on too many feet. I agree that there is still a lot of room for improvement. I have been trying not to step on too many feet for years, and that has certainly led to a suboptimal leader as the same material keeps being rehashed and brought back It is sort of refreshing that you tried to break through that, You were obviously not too thrilled when I reverted your labor of love that you have been obviously working on hard. I must admit though that I did not think your edits were overall positive. You put a lot of emphasis on the topological side of things, but I think your description of the class of the representation was confusing at best and mathematically gets the argument backwards at worst. You have a point that this is an important aspect so I have added that, but in a way that I think is more correct. I also think that the Clifford algebra point of view is important and not very well explained by what you wrote. Anyway i think there is now roughly the same material in as you put in there except, I believe, in more detail, more concise and more correct even though it is now slightly longer than what you wrote. SInce I had things written up while you reverted my revert I reverted yours once more if only not to get my changes lost. I am sure we can work out differences. We both seem to have a mathematical background, and I think we both try to give a description that is precise even though I think we also try to remain intelligible for physicists, so I think we should be able to work out the differences.
P.s. I also find the animated GIF of the belt trick rather distracting but this time I left it in so as not to fight over things that are easily done later. P.P.s. What I REALLY would like to get rid of in this article, or change completely, are the examples in dimension 2 and 3 and 4, showing how the different constructions mentioned work out there. P.P.P.s what I also think this article is really missing is a description of the invariant hermitian form and the Dirac invariants, which I guess is hidden in the Fierz identities but again is hardly obvious. RogierBrussee ( talk) 21:41, 21 September 2014 (UTC)
Do you mind if we (or I) move your comment on my talk page to the talk section of Laplace Transform? It seems important, i.e. when an inverse LT is possible ... Thanks, DoctorTerrella ( talk) 01:36, 23 September 2014 (UTC)
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Sławomir, your edits here are spot-on and achieved the desired result excellently, and I'm just adding this to show that this thread is clearly resolved. — Quondum 18:28, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for your reminding on the commuting assumption! -- IkamusumeFan ( talk) 17:03, 9 October 2014 (UTC)
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Please see again, and please let me why you said that: I already voted?-- Eightcirclestheorem ( talk) 15:30, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
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I do not understand why you always feel the need to respond to my contributions to Talk:Jacob_Barnett with personal insults. If my contributions are as incompetent as you claim, they will make no contribution to the article, so why don't you merely ignore them? Viewfinder ( talk) 13:11, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
Moved here to usertalk from article-talk, per request. [8] 75.108.94.227 ( talk) 22:26, 17 September 2015 (UTC)
Ping Sławomir. The answer to your indirect question, is because User:Agricola44 asked me to: "please read the entire meta-text for this article." [9] You are a big part of that meta-text backtrail, because you've made 100 edits to mainspace, 150 edits to this talkpage, and a bunch of edits to AfD, plus to related usertalk pages. And to be frank, once I started looking at your history on the drama-boards related to *this* Barnett article, I went ahead and dug through you entire noticeboard history. Strike your accusations, Sławomir, WP:INDCRIT says you are failing to be polite. Furthermore, WP:IDONTLIKEIT suggests you ought to please respond with WP:CIVILity, not dismissively. 75.108.94.227 ( talk) 19:00, 17 September 2015 (UTC)
Why the two accounts, User:Sławomir Biały and User:Slawekb? NE Ent 12:05, 26 December 2014 (UTC)
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... for always taking the time to explain, like over at Talk:Spinor. Indeed, SO+(2, 1) is itself not doubly connected since its rotation subgroup is SO(2). That didn't cross my mind. I owe you a barnstar. (How active were you when you weren't semi-retired?) YohanN7 ( talk) 18:28, 28 December 2014 (UTC)
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Sławomir, I realize that you are semi-retired from Wikipedia (and that this historically contentious article may not be among your primary interests), but as a recently-registered user here I'm unable to edit/update with the news that Rader's medical license was revoked by the Medical Board of California in November 2014, after what appears to be a long investigation of his dubious stem cell marketing practices. I've provided the relevant link on Rader's talk page, with the hope that an established user like you will incorporate it into the article itself. Rader's loss of license has yet to receive significant media coverage but will no doubt prompt a sense of relief among legitimate stem cell researchers and scientists around the world. Thank you for your help Vesuvius Dogg ( talk) 17:08, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
Sorry about disturbance - thanks for revert 650439127 and explanation. The actual problem is that formula has ambiguous syntax and does not render on some browsers. Not optimal esthetically, but maybe one of these is acceptable? --- Fakedeeps ( talk) 13:24, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
Error: "TeX parse error: Double subscripts: use braces to clarify"
. At some browser configurations it shows the red-text error, at others does not load; however commonly everything displays properly. Extra braces do fix the problem, but formula gets skewed/distorted a bit. I better leave it as is - agree that issue is elsewhere. Thanks for oversight.
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You might want to look at this, where similar logic is applied but more detail is given. I realize that it is OR and for that reason should not be included, but I am having difficulty pinpointing the error in the logic, so I thought I'd leave it to someone with clearer thinking. Uniqueness of an additive inverse should not a problem (we are assuming + is a group operation), I can see that the left distributivity law is implicitly used (but it is a given axiom), and there seems to be a proof that negation distributes. I see that a near-ring allows noncommutativity, but it simultaneously drops the left distributive property that was implicitly used and thus does not serve as a counterexample. I'm interested in seeing the flaw. — Quondum 19:11, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
Lots of good points. I suppose it's best if we put one note on redundancy in each article. We probably shouldn't change the definitions, for, like YohanN7 said, independence is not necessarily the most important thing. The current dispute revolves around whether commutativity is redundant in a vector space, so I left a large proof of that on the relevant talk page. Once everyone agrees that it works, we can move on and decide how to note that in the article. Also, a note, as proved there, a right inverse IS actually always a left inverse, and, obviously then, vice versa, in any sort of semigroup where every element has a right inverse. That's an essential result for all this dependence of axioms stuff. The short version is, if x + y = 0, then y + x = y + x + y + z, where we suppose z to be a right inverse of y, and that's then y + 0 + z = y + z = 0, so a right inverse is a left inverse. In other words, elements summing to 0 commute. David815 ( talk) 22:07, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
Aw, but I love it when people claim to have solved Millennium Prize problems!
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I don't pretend to understand higher math & conjectures & proofs but found this review of Prastaro's work here to be useful to my layman's mind: https://mixedmath.wordpress.com/2012/08/24/reviewing-goldbach/ as well as this column: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=304. Thank you for wading into that particular AN/I discussion, I appreciate your expertise. Shearonink ( talk) 17:11, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
Dear Professor Krantz,
My name is Slawomir Bialy. I am a regular mathematics editor on the English language Wikipedia. I am writing to express concern over the editorial standards of the "Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications" on whose editorial board you serve. I would specifically like to ask: (1) what is the policy of the editorial board on the retraction of papers? (2) what is the editorial policy regarding claims to have solved longstanding conjectures (e.g., Millennium problems)? (3) does the editorial board stand behind the integrity and quality of papers published in the aforementioned journal?
This inquest relates specifically to a recent case involving someone claiming to have settled the well-known Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness in an article published in the aforementioned journal (MR2386488):
Prástaro, Agostino Geometry of PDE's. IV. Navier-Stokes equation and integral bordism groups. (English summary) J. Math. Anal. Appl. 338 (2008), no. 2, 1140–1151.
This article makes a number of claims that should have flagged it for special editorial review. In particular, it claims to characterize existence and smoothness of global solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations. In fact, the author of this paper further affirms at the following Wikipedia "talk" page to have "completely solved" the Navier-Stokes problem in this paper:
This same author has, on the Arxiv and elsewhere, claimed to have applied similar "integral bordism" methods to solve a number of outstanding problems in mathematics, such as the Goldbach conjecture, Landau's problems, the Riemann hypothesis, the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, and the smooth Poincare conjecture.
While the quality of his work on the Navier-Stokes equation is difficult for me to judge, the basic pattern in this author's contributions is rather clear: create an elaborate enough formalism to conceal the fact that nothing of substance is actually being done. This suggests a deliberate act of fraudulent research, violating basic principles of academic integrity.
I am deeply concerned that the journal has not done due diligence in investigating the quality of this purported research, and as such is negligent (if not complicit) in what seems to be a violation of basic principles. Since you are a world-renowned and respected academic, I am certain you will give this matter your full attention.
Best regards,
Slawomir Bialy, PhD Wikipeida
I have questions, one weak and one strong. First, do you have a PhD in Mathematics? Second, do you focus on editing articles relating to STEM? That way I can ask you questions regarding mathematical articles on Wikipedia, if you consent. Thank you. Dandtiks69 ( talk) 06:16, 8 June 2015 (UTC).
yo slaw,
check out tensor, isambard added the SAME source he tried to insert in vector space
thoughts?
~~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.3.213.121 ( talk) 19:33, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
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haven't heard back from you on this point. I'm curious what you were referring to when you said semi-Riemannian manifolds were metric spaces and didn't have metric tensors. It's been a long time, but I'm pretty confident that I learned the term as synonymous with what you are calling pseudo-Riemannian manifolds, and I haven't been able to find any reference to the notion you cite as semi-Riemannian manifolds. -- Trovatore ( talk) 03:40, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
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You say \scriptstyle
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Isn't Wikipedia wonderfully democratic? Here every crackpot can drag you to the jury for anything they chose, using authoritative language. They seek opportunities to do it and love it. They love "rules" more than anything else. It isn't particularly important what the rules actually say, but the important thing is that there are "rules" that someone may break. That said, of course, Guy might not be one of those, don't know. YohanN7 ( talk) 11:54, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
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You wrote: "Please don't change inline latex into html. See WP:MOSMATH"
Don't you mean don't change inline HTML into LaTeX? I call your attention to [11]
"both are acceptable and widely used ... One should not change formatting boldly from LaTeX to HTML, nor from non-LaTeX to LaTeX without a clear improvement. Proposed changes should generally be discussed on the talk page of the article before implementation."
Perhaps this is worthy of discussion on the Exponentiation article talk page. I see a clear improvement versus the clumsy inline HTML of the embedded sequences of exponents in this instance.
As for exponentiation "sometimes" being commutative, that indeed is the point being corrected with my edit. Exponentiation is sometimes commutative, which is the essence of the special cases in which it does in fact form commutative groups, or in the general case where a large exponent is factored. The commutative law of multiplication applies to the exponents when exponentiation is factored, but only to the order in which the exponentiation is performed not in terms of the base and exponents changing places, which is why Diffie-Hellman key exchange works. Are you willing to consider an edit to make my contribution more clear, or do you insist that nothing at all about exponentiation ever possesses a commutative property? RiskNerd ( talk) 05:09, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
I'm interested in "Completing" to at least stub level the Greek Letter Organizations that are part of the Professional Fraternity Association. One of those is Delta Epsilon Iota. Since you are the editor who did started the Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Delta Epsilon Iota, I'd like to see if I can create a stub that would be appropriate. I'm a fairly experienced editor who is a member of Wikipedia:WikiProject Fraternities and Sororities. Naraht ( talk) 18:44, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
Hey, I just put in a request for comment about the "legend" section. I didn't even know there was deleted content that covered it, until after I put it in. However I still think my version covered the section sufficiently better than the original did and was more clear about the dubious nature of it. I would ask that maybe you could look over the section again and chime in. I feel that you might of saw the content reapear and just of had a knee jerk reaction against it but I do feel it is an improvement over the old one. Regardless, I'll wait and see what the consensus says about it. -- Deathawk ( talk) 05:42, 15 February 2016 (UTC)
In this edit you wrote "I think a rather enlightening perspective is that in quantum mechanics it isn't really the Hilbert space itself that one sees, but rather its dual."
If you have time, would you very kindly be willing to expand a little on that, or perhaps give me a reference for it? Chjoaygame ( talk) 04:42, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
In May 2012 you told me (in WP:RD/Math, i guess)
And now, unpacking some boxes with an eye to getting rid of excess books, I find that I somehow have a secondhand Strang. It must have been in a box since 2009 if not before. — Tamfang ( talk) 07:04, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
responded to your post on incompleteness theorem..was trying to figure out how to alert you in case you wanted to respond again...I think I did it wrong, and just inserted your logo...so maybe go fix that if it's wrong and needs to be removed...but tried a bunch of things in the code...but nothing else I tried including the pinging template seemed to work... people seemed to be using Username: but that didn't seem to work.... 68.48.241.158 ( talk) 20:18, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
If you are going to use this user account to edit, could you not redirect that account's user pages to this account? It's very confusing for editors who might want to get in touch with you. Since this account has been inactive for over a year, I'm not sure if you are even reading this talk page. Liz Read! Talk! 21:27, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
You undid my revision. What was written before my edit was too general. The example was about a specific type of linear transformation, namely an endomorphic one. That is an important aspect because of the change of basis matrices which are used in the example. So now it is less accurate. If accuracy does not matter then we could also write 'function' instead of 'linear transformation' which is even more general. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jadzia2341 ( talk • contribs) 12:50, 21 April 2016 (UTC)
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So I disagreed your revert,consensus is neither adding template nor making link in the text.And that's just your rule.And you are not semiretired.-- Takahiro4 ( talk) 16:48, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
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do you honestly think in good faith that my improvement to your improvement isn't an improvement?? particularly the final sentence I added to the paragraph?? any "bias" would be stating "often" as "often" has a connotation other than "universal" or "almost always" etc etc which is inline with reality..do we really need to start a new talk page thread on this???? 68.48.241.158 ( talk) 16:27, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
"Since curves of finite length have zero breadth.." is this accurate/best way of stating things?? does it imply curves of infinite length are somehow different? couldn't find anything via google along these lines...you tell me; I have no idea... 68.48.241.158 ( talk) 15:30, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
Paul Adamson The Processionist ( talk) 00:08, 12 May 2016 (UTC)== Just a thank you. ==
Your depiction of the spinor helped me to correlate a phenomenon, in my physics model, with the standard model. This correlation will end up being part of my description of the xion particle, which gets its name from the modification of the Lorentz contraction, by the inclusion of the Xi variable (The LorentzXi contraction.) So, thank you. :D — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.53.34.76 ( talk) 23:56, 11 May 2016 (UTC)
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I apologize for failing to notice your response at WP:RD/Math for several days; I had checked back after a while, and then was distracted. Given that the thread has been archived, I'm not sure where best to respond. Briefly, I'm interested in finding a simple geometric intuition that I can use to explain a geometric visualization of Galilean relativity, special relativity and then hopefully the closely related de Sitter and anti-de Sitter alternatives to a young person. My tendency is to explore a larger class of related objects to seek broadly applicable ideas, hence a brief exploration into complex numbers. Feel free to move this as you feel appropriate. — Quondum 05:54, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
Hi there. Did you accidentally revert the wrong edit? The quaternion book published by Birkhäuser doesn't sound as if it's fringe. Did you mean the bioinformatics reference instead? Martijn Meijering ( talk) 10:53, 21 June 2016 (UTC)
Hi,
I added a comment to the talk page re your deletion of the example of a recursively defined function listing all the primes (not only a subset, as the published and referenced example does). Isn't there a theorem in logic that says this had to be possible anyway because primes are a such-and-such set (recursive, recursively enumerable, primitive recursive or whatever the correct def'n is) and a suitable reference? I'm probably not going to go further with this, but it is strange having a published example that lists a subset of the primes when anyone can write down a similar example which lists them all in the correct order. Createangelos ( talk) 12:11, 25 June 2016 (UTC)
OK, I just had a go myself, using an encyclopedia. The idea seems to be that any recursive set is recursively enumerable. A computer program to list them also can be encoded as a recursive function.
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Noting here I've just copied the upload history over to Commons, so the F8 tag can be reinstated. Jo-Jo Eumerus ( talk, contributions) 22:38, 26 June 2016 (UTC)
If you have sufficient knowledge to wriote an article on this subject, please feel free to do so, but the "article" that I replaced with a re-direct is not that article. Please do not revert the redirect again. BMK ( talk) 00:34, 30 June 2016 (UTC)
Thanks for your recent edits on Infinite monkey theorem.
I read your userpage quotes with interest. You'll probably appreciate the essay on my userpage, especially the conclusion. ·· gracefool 💬 06:40, 5 August 2016 (UTC)
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Please do not revert my edits on other pages, because of changes I am proposing on Hillary Clinton's change. If you disagree with the changes I make to other changes, then discuss it on those pages. NationalInterest16 ( talk) 02:33, 1 October 2016 (UTC)
Your comment suggesting that I should learn some political knowledge is in bad faith. /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Assume_good_faith NationalInterest16 ( talk) 05:47, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
Sorry, could not email you. The following is copied from the book by W. Mückenheim: "Mathematik für die ersten Semester", 4th ed., De Gruyter, Berlin 2015, p. 194f ISBN 978-3-11-037733-0 20.1 Zur Dezimaldarstellung von Zahlen [...] Ausdrücke wie a1 + a2 + a3 + ... oder 0,111 ... werden in der Literatur gewöhnlich nicht als Reihen, sondern stillschweigend als deren Grenzwerte aufgefasst, so dass eine korrekte Bezeichnung wie 0,111 ... → 1/9 kurz als 0,111 ...= 1/9 notiert wird. Diese vereinfachende Konvention ist darauf zurückzuführen, dass ein Ausdruck wie 0,111 ...sowohl zur Berechnung des Grenzwertes und jeder Partialsumme dienen kann, als auch zur Kennzeichnung der unendlichen Reihe, also der Folge der Partialsummen selbst. Sie führt weder beim Rechnen, noch in der Mathematik des potentiell Unendlichen zu Irrtümern, weil von den Gliedern einer unendlichen Reihe ohnehin niemals Vollständigkeit erwartet werden kann. Wird dagegen diese Vollständigkeit axiomatisch oder mit anderer Begründung gefordert oder vorausgesetzt, so muss zwischen der Reihe, d. h. der Partialsummenfolge oder Ziffernfolge, und ihrem Grenzwert unterschieden werden. Denn es ist mit mathematischer Strenge unvereinbar, die unendliche Folge aller Endziffern von Näherungen, die für jeden noch so großen Index den Grenzwert verfehlen, mit eben diesem zu identifizieren. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.82.109.251 ( talk) 10:57, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
Please know that I'm not trying to vandalize any page, I'm just trying to remove the unappropriate content from Hillary Clinton's page. Cenationfan ( talk) 17:15, 13 October 2016 (UTC)Cenationfan
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Please allow me to point out that you have summarily removed material added to this article three times in the last 24 hours. If you do this again I will report you for breach of WP:3RR. Viewfinder ( talk) 13:39, 29 November 2016 (UTC)
I have re-opened the conversation at Talk:Nicolae Ceaușescu. I've answered to your point from FRINGE and tried as best I could to restate your assertion. Apologies if I have misrepresented anything you mentioned. Either way, I more than welcome your thoughts. -- OJ ( talk) 21:25, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
Regarding this revert with the summary of “ Verifiability is not temporary”… what are you talking about? If it’s verifiable that the series of videos were deleted, then great, let’s verify that. Or was the dead link to a video about the deletion of those other videos? Either way, we still need a way to actually verify the claim. — 67.14.236.50 ( talk) 21:13, 26 December 2016 (UTC)
Please note that, per WP:RS/IMDb, IMDb is not considered a reliable source and should not be used in citations. That said, thanks for providing an additional citation, which not only establishes the use of the theremin but that it was considered significant in some manner, per WP:IPCV. Happy New Year! DonIago ( talk) 16:10, 30 December 2016 (UTC)
How is that statement I added to manifold wrong? Rather than remove it, can you correct it? I suspect it might be wrong from omission of finer points rather than anything else. -- ssd ( talk) 15:06, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi. I just noticed this past revision of yours, which strikes me as a POV attempt to discredit the subject of the paragraph from the very first sentence. While that’s not necessarily wrong (I’m frankly surprised there aren’t more sources that do), it makes me wonder if you’re getting too emotionally invested in this, for any reason. Feel free to delete and disregard this message if I’m way off base, but remember there is no deadline. Take care. — 67.14.236.50 ( talk) 01:15, 12 January 2017 (UTC)
The previous writing was barely comprehensible English, though the math was reasonable though somewhat tedious. I was tempted to note that the "problem" points are all countable and be done with it. However, I thought it was illuminating enough that I tried to save as much as possible.
In the previous version some obvious/basic statements or arguments (like how to compose the tangent function with a linear function) were made again and again, while the crux of the problem was obfuscated with poor explanation, in part hindered by lack of command of English. I made it readable. Alsosaid1987 ( talk) 02:03, 14 February 2017 (UTC)
The notation used in the previous version was also not explained. I don't think the reader of this article needs to see the term tangent or composition function defined. I will restore cardinality of the continuum. I also explained that is a binary expansion. Again, please read before criticizing.
I have now made the changes piecewise. None of these are unreasonable edits. These are either: defining things that are not defined or making the English grammatically correct or idiomatic. As you can see, these are not much different from my original edits (except I wasted my time doing them again). I guess I understand if you do not like LaTeX in a HTML, but I personally find it more readable. Alsosaid1987 ( talk) 02:57, 14 February 2017 (UTC)
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I do not feel that "After comparing himself to Einstein and Newton" is accurate. No where does he say "I am just like these people." I think it is a little disparaging and will remove it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Subuey ( talk • contribs) 04:53, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
OMG why are you following me to other pages — Preceding unsigned comment added by Subuey ( talk • contribs) 13:10, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
I see, the author wanted to pack into the line the constraint y = x as well. For a different constraint there might be a very little chance that 2*x=y ? But then then the outcome 2*x would be also different. Anyway I thought seeing 2*x and y side by side is enough, but you are right 2*x ≠ x is better. Well we would need x ≠ 0 as well. Proofs are hairy. Oki Doki. (Its about rollback of https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Total_derivative&type=revision&diff=775758114&oldid=770029041 ) Jan Burse ( talk) 12:01, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
Hey, thanks for the cleanup on manifolds! I'm not an expert, but I'm learning. I still think that article could use some work, but I appreciate your thoughtful contributions.
Right now, that article makes it difficult to get a general notion of what a manifold is without dropping back to special cases, such as the topological case. I don't really understand how Hausdorff fits in there. It's confusing whether it's applicable to general manifolds or topological ones. Not obvious to me whether topological and Hausdorff manifolds are one and the same, or whether Hausdorff is an extra condition against topological manifolds (most likely). I have similar difficulty with the section on manifolds with boundary. I assume that those are a special case of topological manifolds, but the article doesn't seem to contextualize them well. 47.32.217.164 ( talk) 17:28, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
The second paragraph of the section on circles introduces the relevant terminology of charts and atlases. Is this what you mean? Sławomir Biały ( talk) 16:15, 20 April 2017 (UTC)
this edit summary was very sneaky of you, since it was your edit that included the primary source. NeilN Subuey ( talk) 05:52, 2 May 2017 (UTC)
I accidentally reverted your edit at Infinite monkey theorem. Sorry, about that, I'm not what happened. Paul August ☎ 17:52, 4 May 2017 (UTC)
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I hate asking for favors, but would you let me know whether the, from the top of my head, newly and hastily written unreferenced Representation theory of the Lorentz group#Group representations from Lie algebra representations is mumbo-jumbo? YohanN7 ( talk) 08:36, 18 May 2017 (UTC)
Thanks again. I'm now sure it will come out right in the end. YohanN7 ( talk) 10:20, 19 May 2017 (UTC)
I asked about colon versus semicolon here. (No really decisive reply yet, but my bet is on the semicolon unless the next letter is capitalized ) YohanN7 ( talk) 14:08, 31 May 2017 (UTC)
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Hi, you undid my edit to the Distributions page with the reason that the original text is easier to read. Unfortunately, the original definition is wrong (and not equivalent to my edit). One way to see this is that in the original definition, the number NK would be superfluous, since satisfaction of the inequality with NK>0 would always imply satisfaction of the inequality with NK=0. See also the reference given in the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by [[User:{{{1}}}|{{{1}}}]] ([[User talk:{{{1}}}#top|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/{{{1}}}|contribs]])
Hi! Thanks four reply at WP:RD/MA re the missing context for the notation used in case of taking the partial derivative with respect to in such a way as to keep the ratio fixed in order to give the equations a precise meaning.
The context of this nonstandard partial derivative variable to be held constant refers to the representations in ternary plot of variables of composition - mole fractions in this case - that add up to a constant in the field of thermodynamics.
How do you consider the inclusion of these aspects at Partial derivative article?-- 82.137.15.34 ( talk) 12:23, 25 October 2017 (UTC)
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Your recent edit of {{ Pi box}} made the appearance of the infobox in the article Pi much too large, because of the animated image that appeared only in Pi. As, in any case, this image were misplaced in the infobox, I have removed it. D.Lazard ( talk) 12:06, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
In fact, for all , s.t.
So is not the unique number that yields an area under the curve of 1. That statement is true only if the lower bound of the interval of integration is 1. That was not specified in the original text. If you don't like my correction, please correct the text as you see fit rather than revert to an incorrect statement. Vincent ( talk) 20:43, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
Yeah, errr no. It wasn't better before because it wasn't true before. I'll revert later, but if you want to correct it yourself be my guest. Vincent ( talk) 23:17, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
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I am asking you to self-revert this edit because an obvious local consensus supported not restoring it after my initial challenged removal. (12 support removal to 8 includes). I also said on the TP why I removed the material. It appears that you forgot I had challenged that material right after it was added per NOTNEWS on April 17th. I'm not sure when it was replaced in part, don't have time to search it, but it never should have been added back, especially while there was an ongoing survey to restore. I actually have 2 reasons that support my position regarding your noncompliant edit. I am pinging NeilN since he has been overseeing that article. Atsme 📞 📧 22:35, 5 May 2018 (UTC)
Sławomir Biały, as far as I can tell, you are participating in the discussion and determining what is consensus. Which is not good. -- NeilN talk to me 22:46, 5 May 2018 (UTC)
NeilN, and everyone else here, what makes this confusing is that we're actually talking about two different versions of content. A much shorter, long-standing, version was not contested, but a much larger version was contested and the subject of edit warring. I explained this, but my comment is still the last one in the thread, and no one has responded. While the long, contested, version was deleted and being discussed, I restored the much shorter original, long-standing, version. Now people are confusing the two and more edit warring is occurring. The original, much shorter, version should remain until this dispute is settled. -- BullRangifer ( talk) PingMe 18:23, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
You removed my edit to Partial differential equation stating it is "Extremely uncommon notation". I am not a mathematician so I do not have an opinion on this but my motivation for including it was that I came across this notation on the Encyclopedia of Math website.
See also discussion.
To save other's confusion, I suggest we should either
What do you think?
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Why are you doing this? You are suppose to state why you are undoing edits. Plus you revert all the them on a page not just the parts you feel are wrong.
What is the difference now between *absolute infinite* and *infinite* to you BernardZ ( talk)
Explain what is Ungrammatical about this statement? Caesar could claim personal ties to the gods, both by descent and the office BernardZ ( talk)
Why do you consider after a date in a sentence, a comma is wrong. BernardZ ( talk)
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Hi, Sławek, you are the author of the section Limit of a function#More general subsets, added in May 2015 ( Special:Diff/664195051). Can you, please, add some reference to it?
I can see such general definition is useful, e.g. in higher dimensions you can sometimes find different subsets of the domain with the same limit point S, each subset easily implying its own limit at S, then conclude the 'general' limit at S does not exist. For example axes OX and OY are such subsets of R2 to show the limit of xy doesn't exist at (0, 0).
But is it actually formally defined in any book...? -- CiaPan ( talk) 08:50, 15 October 2018 (UTC)
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I think it is important to note that the original of the real numbers section of the cantor's diagonal argument page is poorly written, with too much time focused on trivial detail, and poor English used to explain the crux of the argument. You can't be serious with me being to formalistic! It's important to use the correct language when talking about math! Anyway, I spent time fixing an unreadable section. Alsosaid1987 ( talk) 02:09, 14 February 2017 (UTC)
I laughed out loud reading your post about reverting the code inserted into the prime numbers article.... I fell out of my chair when I actually saw the code.... The fact that the guy wanted to solve the Goldbach conjecture with that... RockvilleRideOn ( talk) 03:48, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
I saw your talk on 'Fourier transform'. If you have time, could you just explain a little more on normalization problem? Or state in the page so reader could be aware of this. Thanks. Allenleeshining ( talk) 17:34, 4 January 2013 (UTC) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Fourier_transform#Suspect_wrong_equations_in_section_.27Square-integrable_functions.27
Hi Sławo, I fixed some math formatting in the Taylor's series section, which you have reverted to the original. I didn't realize I had to justify this as the changes were obviously typographical from the diff output. cerniagigante ( talk) 01:09, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
Hi Sławomir Biały. Following your correction. How can you explain the following identity:
My calculus will be
This way I get to the final result of instead of
Please correct me if I'm wrong — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lupflamind ( talk • contribs) 15:10, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi Sławomir Biały. It's fine if you want to change the name however I would not pick the name "Uniform convergence in a topological vector space" since there is after all a concept in general topology about uniform convergence (i.e. uniformities) that in particular applies to all TVSs. Maybe change it to "Topologies of Uniform Convergence on Vector Spaces of Maps"? Also, I do have a very general introduction but that's because otherwise the same concepts would have to continuously reappear throughout the subsection. Mgkrupa ( talk) 16:13, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
– 2001:db8:: ( rfc | diff) 23:27, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
I responded to your question at the Math reference desk at Wikipedia:Reference desk/Mathematics#Penrose tiles puzzle pieces. Best. -- Toshio Yamaguchi 13:00, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
Hello. Why article Sergey Zonenko seen at "being considered for deletion"? Whay we can fix that article was not removed? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ogeldke ( talk • contribs) 11:42, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
I saw the wiki page, but I couldn't find any examples using actual numbers evaluating the formula. Could you give some examples of convolution, please? Mathijs Krijzer ( talk) 22:14, 9 March 2013 (UTC)
The convolution of f and g is written f∗g, using an asterisk or star. It is defined as the integral of the product of the two functions after one is reversed and shifted. As such, it is a particular kind of integral transform:
The convolution of two complex-valued functions on Rd
is well-defined only if f and g decay sufficiently rapidly at infinity in order for the integral to exist. Conditions for the existence of the convolution may be tricky, since a blow-up in g at infinity can be easily offset by sufficiently rapid decay in f. The question of existence thus may involve different conditions on f and g.
When a function gN is periodic, with period N, then for functions, f, such that f∗gN exists, the convolution is also periodic and identical to:
When a function gT is periodic, with period T, then for functions, f, such that f∗gT exists, the convolution is also periodic and identical to:
where to is an arbitrary choice. The summation is called a periodic summation of the function f.
For complex-valued functions f, g defined on the set Z of integers, the discrete convolution of f and g is given by:
When multiplying two polynomials, the coefficients of the product are given by the convolution of the original coefficient sequences, extended with zeros where necessary to avoid undefined terms; this is known as the Cauchy product of the coefficients of the two polynomials.
I saw your post at WP:VPT. It appears that WP:UTRS is currently down due to toolserver problems. Your best bet is to try Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations#Quick CheckUser requests. Thanks, EdJohnston ( talk) 04:13, 13 April 2013 (UTC)
Hello, Sławomir, I replied to you last comment here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_deletion/Axiom_of_global_choice Eozhik ( talk) 06:07, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
[1] No. You apparently do not understand the difference between the ring Z of integer numbers, which is a specific ring, and the ring of integers OK of a number field K, not a specific ring but a functor from fields(?) to commutative rings. Of course, the ring of integers of p-adic numbers contains some extra elements which Z does not have. Incnis Mrsi ( talk) 06:18, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
Being "semi-retired" here, you could be welcome there. Boris Tsirelson ( talk) 07:23, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
If you feel that way inclined, I'd appreciate a quick "yes" or "no" at Talk:Transpose#Transpose_of_linear_maps: why defined in terms of a bilinear form?. — Quondum 14:17, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
Thank you very much for your answers to my question. I've learned many from you. Could you please make some comments on my newly posted words about the angle in Wikipedia:Reference desk/Mathematics? Thanks. Armeria wiki ( talk) 03:38, 13 June 2013 (UTC)
Dear Sławomir, Thanks for your comments and your interest for the Banach space article. I certainly agree with your comments, and I reply here because what I want to say is a bit personal. Actually, I would like some help of yours on the following points:
With best wishes, Bdmy ( talk) 12:59, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
Re your edit here http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia_talk%3AWikiProject_Environment&diff=563829950&oldid=563780784
Sorry didn't mean it like that. I just thought that whole conversation was rather long and nothing to do with the talk page and had many insults and ad hominem attacks plus defences against those attacks - and thought it would be tedious reading for others. I hid lots of my own content as well with those tags. I have nothing to hide, just thought the whole conversation would be off topic for most readers.
But am probably not the best one to make a decision of what should be hidden if any :) Robert Walker ( talk) 16:29, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi. Just letting you know I've quoted a diff of yours at ArbCom in the Mars case. Someone not using his real name ( talk) 17:39, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Mathematics/2013 July 6#Convergence and Closed Form Expression. — 79.113.213.214 ( talk) 00:10, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi,
I am writing in response to your reversal regarding the dot product notation in Hilbert space:
I understand your point, and don't object to the reversal. Maybe I should have discussed the notation before editing, I apologize.
However, I feel that your argument comes more from a programming notion of vectors than from a mathematical point of view. In fact, to me vectors (of the same vector space) in the mathematical sense don't have types, so the fact that a vector is represented with a column syntax or a row syntax does not change the vector to which that syntax refers.
This said, it is true that row or column syntax of vectors does affect the kind and the order of the operations that may be performed on them. But this is only a matter of representation, not of "vector type". To me, writing the dot product in euclidean spaces as a product of matrices feels more natural, because it follows the laws of matrix multiplication. For other definitions of the dot product usually the angle bracket notation <·, ·> is preferred.
So, to conclude, I would like to ask if the current notation is a standard, or if there are any reasons to prefer it over matrix multiplication notation. If so, could you please provide any references?
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Generalizing is usually good in mathematics. Talking about real or complex only numbers looks awkward, specially when this holds also for function over finite fields. AgadaUrbanit ( talk) 23:51, 4 September 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for commenting on the AdS/CFT article. I just wanted to let you know that I've made some changes in response to your comments. Let me know if it's what you wanted. Thanks again. Polytope24 ( talk) 01:16, 27 October 2013 (UTC)
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I notice that ypou just reverted a fix I attempted on tensor product of Hilbert spaces. I made the fix mostly because I could not parse the formula there as written, and tried to replace it with something close to the original intent. FWIW, I made exactly the same change to tensor product. Basiclly, the issue is that the arrow w.r.t. the element of symbol: if x^* is an element of H^* then what the heck does x^* \to x^*(x_1)x_2 mean? The intent seemed to be to use a mapto not a \to. Or perhaps the orig author meant H_1^* \to x^*(x_1)x_2 but this doesn't make much sense either. I'm going to copy this over to the talk page there. Thanks. User:Linas ( talk) 14:06, 23 November 2013 (UTC)
This seems to jump the shark a bit, even though it ultimately produces the correct result. It would be nice if my method could be justified by complex analysis.-- Jasper Deng (talk) 20:31, 20 December 2013 (UTC)
I do not understand your revert of my edit in dot product. I understand that you consider that "dot product" has to be used for coordinate vectors, and "inner product" refers to Euclidean vector spaces. This is not the convention used presently in this article. More specifically, the sections "Geometric definition", and "Scalar projection and the equivalence of the definitions" are about inner product (called here "dot product") of Euclidean vector spaces. Before my edit and after your revert, the section "Scalar projection and the equivalence of the definitions" passes suddenly from Euclidean vectors to the standard basis of Rn without saying that this can not be done without choosing an orthogonal basis of the Euclidean vector space. This is not only confusing (see the recent good faith edits by an IP user and my comment on his talk page), but mathematically incorrect. My edit was intended to restore mathematical correctness. I agree that the article needs further edits for clarifying the terminology, splitting the section "Scalar projection and the equivalence of the definitions" into "Scalar projection", "Properties" (bilinearity) and "Equivalence", etc. But, in any case, mathematical correctness comes before accurate terminology. Therefore, I'll revert your revert, hoping that you or someone else will clarify the terminology, and adapt accordingly the articles dot product and inner product space. I cannot do it myself, because, for me, "dot product", "scalar product" and "inner product" are synonyms (by the way, the term "dot product" does not exist in French, and "produit intérieur", the equivalent of "inner product", is rarely used; this is not a problem). D.Lazard ( talk) 15:19, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
For readabiliy it is a good idea to separate out the history section. Also you reverted the fix for the "passive voice" weird grammar used.
"Taylor's theorem is named after the mathematician Brook Taylor, who stated a version of it in 1712. Yet, an explicit expression of the error was provided much later on by Joseph-Louis Lagrange. An earlier version of the result is already mentioned in 1671 by James Gregory.[1]"
There is an implicit statement here that Brook Taylors version did not have an error term. Implicit statements are not very readable because they create doubt in the readers mind. In my mind the above writing would be unacceptable for a primary school student. It is affected and pretentious. You could have corrected what you saw as wrong, but you chose just to roll it back. I will not play revert wars with you. Do as you will. Large numbers of mathematics articles are burdened with affected and pretentious language, which makes them inaccessible for the average reader. The wiki is not just for experts. It is a general encyclopedia. Of course expertise will always be valued, but effective communication is just as important.
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I was thinking you could help answer this question that I asked in lieu of a proper tensor calculus/algebra or differential geometry textbook.-- Jasper Deng (talk) 04:57, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
Hey. Thanks for correcting any mistakes that I did there. Just want to know how do you decided that 'are the central object in complex analysis ' goes first than the actual meaning of the term?
I accept i missed correcting grammar there, but i think 'In mathematics' is good enough context for a topic like holomorphic functions.
for reference, https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Holomorphic_function&oldid=599710410&diff=prev
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cool. makes sense. thanks! Mittgaurav ( talk) 16:54, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
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I think I have references to back it up, except for the conclusion (reps are faithful), but these references are 500 km away at the moment. The Wikipedia articles don't suffice. I'd appreciate your help. YohanN7 ( talk) 16:33, 21 April 2014 (UTC)
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Hi, I am sorry not to give reasons for my edit of Beal's Conjecture's known cases, but the room allowed there did not make a response possible. I am fairly new to Wikipedia, and am not sure if this is the appropriate place to give the reason, but I will. The paper cited does claim a proof of the (n,n,3) case, but does not make it explicit because it is so immediately apparent from how it is stated there. In fact, for this reason, it is not likely that a published paper will make this explicit. If n>2, then k divides n, where k is prime or 4. If A and B are part of a counterexample with exponents (n,n,3), then they can be raised to the power of n divided by k and therefore pertain to a counterexample of the form (k,k,3), contradicting the results as explicitly stated in the cited paper. By the same reasoning, in the (n,n,2) case for n not a 2 power or 3, n is divisible by 6, 9, or some prime greater than 3, and this factor can be taken as k in an argument like the one above. This is not a new result, just a less than clearly result already attained as stated in the paper already cited. However, I assume the author expected serious researchers in the area of the conjecture (the intended audience of the paper), would immediately see these claims as included therein. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kyle1009 ( talk • contribs) 18:33, 19 June 2014 (UTC)
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I have to say this.
The comment "Fine. If three PhDs agree that a "mass density" or "charge density" is not a density at all, clearly they must be right." you made to our crank over at the talk page wasn't very nice considering he seems to be a harmless crank with bad self-esteem. Now not only he, but also his professors are declared idiots in his mind now. I'm sure he's walking around talking about this. I actually feel sorry for him.
Besides, you are wrong, experienced professor or not, this time you are wrong. All densities are densities with the other convention as well, just stick to one convention per calculation and you'll be fine.
This is what I meant by a measure of religiosity on your part. No doubt JRSpriggs is even more religious. I'm actually very surprised. YohanN7 ( talk) 05:14, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
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Just so you are aware: I responded to your assertion on Talk:Compact space with a concrete example (i.e. the case of a non-Abelian distance metric, for which your interpretation would be false). — Preceding unsigned comment added by TricksterWolf ( talk • contribs) 14:49, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
We seem to be in a minor edit war on the Spinor page. I have been editing the spinor on and off for years trying not too step on too many feet. I agree that there is still a lot of room for improvement. I have been trying not to step on too many feet for years, and that has certainly led to a suboptimal leader as the same material keeps being rehashed and brought back It is sort of refreshing that you tried to break through that, You were obviously not too thrilled when I reverted your labor of love that you have been obviously working on hard. I must admit though that I did not think your edits were overall positive. You put a lot of emphasis on the topological side of things, but I think your description of the class of the representation was confusing at best and mathematically gets the argument backwards at worst. You have a point that this is an important aspect so I have added that, but in a way that I think is more correct. I also think that the Clifford algebra point of view is important and not very well explained by what you wrote. Anyway i think there is now roughly the same material in as you put in there except, I believe, in more detail, more concise and more correct even though it is now slightly longer than what you wrote. SInce I had things written up while you reverted my revert I reverted yours once more if only not to get my changes lost. I am sure we can work out differences. We both seem to have a mathematical background, and I think we both try to give a description that is precise even though I think we also try to remain intelligible for physicists, so I think we should be able to work out the differences.
P.s. I also find the animated GIF of the belt trick rather distracting but this time I left it in so as not to fight over things that are easily done later. P.P.s. What I REALLY would like to get rid of in this article, or change completely, are the examples in dimension 2 and 3 and 4, showing how the different constructions mentioned work out there. P.P.P.s what I also think this article is really missing is a description of the invariant hermitian form and the Dirac invariants, which I guess is hidden in the Fierz identities but again is hardly obvious. RogierBrussee ( talk) 21:41, 21 September 2014 (UTC)
Do you mind if we (or I) move your comment on my talk page to the talk section of Laplace Transform? It seems important, i.e. when an inverse LT is possible ... Thanks, DoctorTerrella ( talk) 01:36, 23 September 2014 (UTC)
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Sławomir, your edits here are spot-on and achieved the desired result excellently, and I'm just adding this to show that this thread is clearly resolved. — Quondum 18:28, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for your reminding on the commuting assumption! -- IkamusumeFan ( talk) 17:03, 9 October 2014 (UTC)
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Please see again, and please let me why you said that: I already voted?-- Eightcirclestheorem ( talk) 15:30, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
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You are formally warned of this, I won't post here any more, discussion should be kept on the article talk page. μηδείς ( talk) 04:17, 16 November 2014 (UTC)
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I do not understand why you always feel the need to respond to my contributions to Talk:Jacob_Barnett with personal insults. If my contributions are as incompetent as you claim, they will make no contribution to the article, so why don't you merely ignore them? Viewfinder ( talk) 13:11, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
Moved here to usertalk from article-talk, per request. [8] 75.108.94.227 ( talk) 22:26, 17 September 2015 (UTC)
Ping Sławomir. The answer to your indirect question, is because User:Agricola44 asked me to: "please read the entire meta-text for this article." [9] You are a big part of that meta-text backtrail, because you've made 100 edits to mainspace, 150 edits to this talkpage, and a bunch of edits to AfD, plus to related usertalk pages. And to be frank, once I started looking at your history on the drama-boards related to *this* Barnett article, I went ahead and dug through you entire noticeboard history. Strike your accusations, Sławomir, WP:INDCRIT says you are failing to be polite. Furthermore, WP:IDONTLIKEIT suggests you ought to please respond with WP:CIVILity, not dismissively. 75.108.94.227 ( talk) 19:00, 17 September 2015 (UTC)
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... for always taking the time to explain, like over at Talk:Spinor. Indeed, SO+(2, 1) is itself not doubly connected since its rotation subgroup is SO(2). That didn't cross my mind. I owe you a barnstar. (How active were you when you weren't semi-retired?) YohanN7 ( talk) 18:28, 28 December 2014 (UTC)
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Sławomir, I realize that you are semi-retired from Wikipedia (and that this historically contentious article may not be among your primary interests), but as a recently-registered user here I'm unable to edit/update with the news that Rader's medical license was revoked by the Medical Board of California in November 2014, after what appears to be a long investigation of his dubious stem cell marketing practices. I've provided the relevant link on Rader's talk page, with the hope that an established user like you will incorporate it into the article itself. Rader's loss of license has yet to receive significant media coverage but will no doubt prompt a sense of relief among legitimate stem cell researchers and scientists around the world. Thank you for your help Vesuvius Dogg ( talk) 17:08, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
Sorry about disturbance - thanks for revert 650439127 and explanation. The actual problem is that formula has ambiguous syntax and does not render on some browsers. Not optimal esthetically, but maybe one of these is acceptable? --- Fakedeeps ( talk) 13:24, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
Error: "TeX parse error: Double subscripts: use braces to clarify"
. At some browser configurations it shows the red-text error, at others does not load; however commonly everything displays properly. Extra braces do fix the problem, but formula gets skewed/distorted a bit. I better leave it as is - agree that issue is elsewhere. Thanks for oversight.
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You might want to look at this, where similar logic is applied but more detail is given. I realize that it is OR and for that reason should not be included, but I am having difficulty pinpointing the error in the logic, so I thought I'd leave it to someone with clearer thinking. Uniqueness of an additive inverse should not a problem (we are assuming + is a group operation), I can see that the left distributivity law is implicitly used (but it is a given axiom), and there seems to be a proof that negation distributes. I see that a near-ring allows noncommutativity, but it simultaneously drops the left distributive property that was implicitly used and thus does not serve as a counterexample. I'm interested in seeing the flaw. — Quondum 19:11, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
Lots of good points. I suppose it's best if we put one note on redundancy in each article. We probably shouldn't change the definitions, for, like YohanN7 said, independence is not necessarily the most important thing. The current dispute revolves around whether commutativity is redundant in a vector space, so I left a large proof of that on the relevant talk page. Once everyone agrees that it works, we can move on and decide how to note that in the article. Also, a note, as proved there, a right inverse IS actually always a left inverse, and, obviously then, vice versa, in any sort of semigroup where every element has a right inverse. That's an essential result for all this dependence of axioms stuff. The short version is, if x + y = 0, then y + x = y + x + y + z, where we suppose z to be a right inverse of y, and that's then y + 0 + z = y + z = 0, so a right inverse is a left inverse. In other words, elements summing to 0 commute. David815 ( talk) 22:07, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
Aw, but I love it when people claim to have solved Millennium Prize problems!
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I don't pretend to understand higher math & conjectures & proofs but found this review of Prastaro's work here to be useful to my layman's mind: https://mixedmath.wordpress.com/2012/08/24/reviewing-goldbach/ as well as this column: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=304. Thank you for wading into that particular AN/I discussion, I appreciate your expertise. Shearonink ( talk) 17:11, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
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My name is Slawomir Bialy. I am a regular mathematics editor on the English language Wikipedia. I am writing to express concern over the editorial standards of the "Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications" on whose editorial board you serve. I would specifically like to ask: (1) what is the policy of the editorial board on the retraction of papers? (2) what is the editorial policy regarding claims to have solved longstanding conjectures (e.g., Millennium problems)? (3) does the editorial board stand behind the integrity and quality of papers published in the aforementioned journal?
This inquest relates specifically to a recent case involving someone claiming to have settled the well-known Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness in an article published in the aforementioned journal (MR2386488):
Prástaro, Agostino Geometry of PDE's. IV. Navier-Stokes equation and integral bordism groups. (English summary) J. Math. Anal. Appl. 338 (2008), no. 2, 1140–1151.
This article makes a number of claims that should have flagged it for special editorial review. In particular, it claims to characterize existence and smoothness of global solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations. In fact, the author of this paper further affirms at the following Wikipedia "talk" page to have "completely solved" the Navier-Stokes problem in this paper:
This same author has, on the Arxiv and elsewhere, claimed to have applied similar "integral bordism" methods to solve a number of outstanding problems in mathematics, such as the Goldbach conjecture, Landau's problems, the Riemann hypothesis, the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, and the smooth Poincare conjecture.
While the quality of his work on the Navier-Stokes equation is difficult for me to judge, the basic pattern in this author's contributions is rather clear: create an elaborate enough formalism to conceal the fact that nothing of substance is actually being done. This suggests a deliberate act of fraudulent research, violating basic principles of academic integrity.
I am deeply concerned that the journal has not done due diligence in investigating the quality of this purported research, and as such is negligent (if not complicit) in what seems to be a violation of basic principles. Since you are a world-renowned and respected academic, I am certain you will give this matter your full attention.
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I have questions, one weak and one strong. First, do you have a PhD in Mathematics? Second, do you focus on editing articles relating to STEM? That way I can ask you questions regarding mathematical articles on Wikipedia, if you consent. Thank you. Dandtiks69 ( talk) 06:16, 8 June 2015 (UTC).
yo slaw,
check out tensor, isambard added the SAME source he tried to insert in vector space
thoughts?
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haven't heard back from you on this point. I'm curious what you were referring to when you said semi-Riemannian manifolds were metric spaces and didn't have metric tensors. It's been a long time, but I'm pretty confident that I learned the term as synonymous with what you are calling pseudo-Riemannian manifolds, and I haven't been able to find any reference to the notion you cite as semi-Riemannian manifolds. -- Trovatore ( talk) 03:40, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
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'Consequently works better in the context here.' - please argue why this should be the case. -- Mathmensch ( talk) 11:47, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
Why put the calculus template at the end of the article? That's weird. Lbertolotti ( talk) 19:14, 8 September 2015 (UTC)
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You say \scriptstyle
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Isn't Wikipedia wonderfully democratic? Here every crackpot can drag you to the jury for anything they chose, using authoritative language. They seek opportunities to do it and love it. They love "rules" more than anything else. It isn't particularly important what the rules actually say, but the important thing is that there are "rules" that someone may break. That said, of course, Guy might not be one of those, don't know. YohanN7 ( talk) 11:54, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
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You wrote: "Please don't change inline latex into html. See WP:MOSMATH"
Don't you mean don't change inline HTML into LaTeX? I call your attention to [11]
"both are acceptable and widely used ... One should not change formatting boldly from LaTeX to HTML, nor from non-LaTeX to LaTeX without a clear improvement. Proposed changes should generally be discussed on the talk page of the article before implementation."
Perhaps this is worthy of discussion on the Exponentiation article talk page. I see a clear improvement versus the clumsy inline HTML of the embedded sequences of exponents in this instance.
As for exponentiation "sometimes" being commutative, that indeed is the point being corrected with my edit. Exponentiation is sometimes commutative, which is the essence of the special cases in which it does in fact form commutative groups, or in the general case where a large exponent is factored. The commutative law of multiplication applies to the exponents when exponentiation is factored, but only to the order in which the exponentiation is performed not in terms of the base and exponents changing places, which is why Diffie-Hellman key exchange works. Are you willing to consider an edit to make my contribution more clear, or do you insist that nothing at all about exponentiation ever possesses a commutative property? RiskNerd ( talk) 05:09, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
I'm interested in "Completing" to at least stub level the Greek Letter Organizations that are part of the Professional Fraternity Association. One of those is Delta Epsilon Iota. Since you are the editor who did started the Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Delta Epsilon Iota, I'd like to see if I can create a stub that would be appropriate. I'm a fairly experienced editor who is a member of Wikipedia:WikiProject Fraternities and Sororities. Naraht ( talk) 18:44, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
Hey, I just put in a request for comment about the "legend" section. I didn't even know there was deleted content that covered it, until after I put it in. However I still think my version covered the section sufficiently better than the original did and was more clear about the dubious nature of it. I would ask that maybe you could look over the section again and chime in. I feel that you might of saw the content reapear and just of had a knee jerk reaction against it but I do feel it is an improvement over the old one. Regardless, I'll wait and see what the consensus says about it. -- Deathawk ( talk) 05:42, 15 February 2016 (UTC)
In this edit you wrote "I think a rather enlightening perspective is that in quantum mechanics it isn't really the Hilbert space itself that one sees, but rather its dual."
If you have time, would you very kindly be willing to expand a little on that, or perhaps give me a reference for it? Chjoaygame ( talk) 04:42, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
In May 2012 you told me (in WP:RD/Math, i guess)
And now, unpacking some boxes with an eye to getting rid of excess books, I find that I somehow have a secondhand Strang. It must have been in a box since 2009 if not before. — Tamfang ( talk) 07:04, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
responded to your post on incompleteness theorem..was trying to figure out how to alert you in case you wanted to respond again...I think I did it wrong, and just inserted your logo...so maybe go fix that if it's wrong and needs to be removed...but tried a bunch of things in the code...but nothing else I tried including the pinging template seemed to work... people seemed to be using Username: but that didn't seem to work.... 68.48.241.158 ( talk) 20:18, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
If you are going to use this user account to edit, could you not redirect that account's user pages to this account? It's very confusing for editors who might want to get in touch with you. Since this account has been inactive for over a year, I'm not sure if you are even reading this talk page. Liz Read! Talk! 21:27, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
You undid my revision. What was written before my edit was too general. The example was about a specific type of linear transformation, namely an endomorphic one. That is an important aspect because of the change of basis matrices which are used in the example. So now it is less accurate. If accuracy does not matter then we could also write 'function' instead of 'linear transformation' which is even more general. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jadzia2341 ( talk • contribs) 12:50, 21 April 2016 (UTC)
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So I disagreed your revert,consensus is neither adding template nor making link in the text.And that's just your rule.And you are not semiretired.-- Takahiro4 ( talk) 16:48, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
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do you honestly think in good faith that my improvement to your improvement isn't an improvement?? particularly the final sentence I added to the paragraph?? any "bias" would be stating "often" as "often" has a connotation other than "universal" or "almost always" etc etc which is inline with reality..do we really need to start a new talk page thread on this???? 68.48.241.158 ( talk) 16:27, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
"Since curves of finite length have zero breadth.." is this accurate/best way of stating things?? does it imply curves of infinite length are somehow different? couldn't find anything via google along these lines...you tell me; I have no idea... 68.48.241.158 ( talk) 15:30, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
Paul Adamson The Processionist ( talk) 00:08, 12 May 2016 (UTC)== Just a thank you. ==
Your depiction of the spinor helped me to correlate a phenomenon, in my physics model, with the standard model. This correlation will end up being part of my description of the xion particle, which gets its name from the modification of the Lorentz contraction, by the inclusion of the Xi variable (The LorentzXi contraction.) So, thank you. :D — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.53.34.76 ( talk) 23:56, 11 May 2016 (UTC)
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I apologize for failing to notice your response at WP:RD/Math for several days; I had checked back after a while, and then was distracted. Given that the thread has been archived, I'm not sure where best to respond. Briefly, I'm interested in finding a simple geometric intuition that I can use to explain a geometric visualization of Galilean relativity, special relativity and then hopefully the closely related de Sitter and anti-de Sitter alternatives to a young person. My tendency is to explore a larger class of related objects to seek broadly applicable ideas, hence a brief exploration into complex numbers. Feel free to move this as you feel appropriate. — Quondum 05:54, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
Hi there. Did you accidentally revert the wrong edit? The quaternion book published by Birkhäuser doesn't sound as if it's fringe. Did you mean the bioinformatics reference instead? Martijn Meijering ( talk) 10:53, 21 June 2016 (UTC)
Hi,
I added a comment to the talk page re your deletion of the example of a recursively defined function listing all the primes (not only a subset, as the published and referenced example does). Isn't there a theorem in logic that says this had to be possible anyway because primes are a such-and-such set (recursive, recursively enumerable, primitive recursive or whatever the correct def'n is) and a suitable reference? I'm probably not going to go further with this, but it is strange having a published example that lists a subset of the primes when anyone can write down a similar example which lists them all in the correct order. Createangelos ( talk) 12:11, 25 June 2016 (UTC)
OK, I just had a go myself, using an encyclopedia. The idea seems to be that any recursive set is recursively enumerable. A computer program to list them also can be encoded as a recursive function.
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Noting here I've just copied the upload history over to Commons, so the F8 tag can be reinstated. Jo-Jo Eumerus ( talk, contributions) 22:38, 26 June 2016 (UTC)
If you have sufficient knowledge to wriote an article on this subject, please feel free to do so, but the "article" that I replaced with a re-direct is not that article. Please do not revert the redirect again. BMK ( talk) 00:34, 30 June 2016 (UTC)
Thanks for your recent edits on Infinite monkey theorem.
I read your userpage quotes with interest. You'll probably appreciate the essay on my userpage, especially the conclusion. ·· gracefool 💬 06:40, 5 August 2016 (UTC)
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Please do not revert my edits on other pages, because of changes I am proposing on Hillary Clinton's change. If you disagree with the changes I make to other changes, then discuss it on those pages. NationalInterest16 ( talk) 02:33, 1 October 2016 (UTC)
Your comment suggesting that I should learn some political knowledge is in bad faith. /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Assume_good_faith NationalInterest16 ( talk) 05:47, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
Sorry, could not email you. The following is copied from the book by W. Mückenheim: "Mathematik für die ersten Semester", 4th ed., De Gruyter, Berlin 2015, p. 194f ISBN 978-3-11-037733-0 20.1 Zur Dezimaldarstellung von Zahlen [...] Ausdrücke wie a1 + a2 + a3 + ... oder 0,111 ... werden in der Literatur gewöhnlich nicht als Reihen, sondern stillschweigend als deren Grenzwerte aufgefasst, so dass eine korrekte Bezeichnung wie 0,111 ... → 1/9 kurz als 0,111 ...= 1/9 notiert wird. Diese vereinfachende Konvention ist darauf zurückzuführen, dass ein Ausdruck wie 0,111 ...sowohl zur Berechnung des Grenzwertes und jeder Partialsumme dienen kann, als auch zur Kennzeichnung der unendlichen Reihe, also der Folge der Partialsummen selbst. Sie führt weder beim Rechnen, noch in der Mathematik des potentiell Unendlichen zu Irrtümern, weil von den Gliedern einer unendlichen Reihe ohnehin niemals Vollständigkeit erwartet werden kann. Wird dagegen diese Vollständigkeit axiomatisch oder mit anderer Begründung gefordert oder vorausgesetzt, so muss zwischen der Reihe, d. h. der Partialsummenfolge oder Ziffernfolge, und ihrem Grenzwert unterschieden werden. Denn es ist mit mathematischer Strenge unvereinbar, die unendliche Folge aller Endziffern von Näherungen, die für jeden noch so großen Index den Grenzwert verfehlen, mit eben diesem zu identifizieren. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.82.109.251 ( talk) 10:57, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
Please know that I'm not trying to vandalize any page, I'm just trying to remove the unappropriate content from Hillary Clinton's page. Cenationfan ( talk) 17:15, 13 October 2016 (UTC)Cenationfan
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Please allow me to point out that you have summarily removed material added to this article three times in the last 24 hours. If you do this again I will report you for breach of WP:3RR. Viewfinder ( talk) 13:39, 29 November 2016 (UTC)
I have re-opened the conversation at Talk:Nicolae Ceaușescu. I've answered to your point from FRINGE and tried as best I could to restate your assertion. Apologies if I have misrepresented anything you mentioned. Either way, I more than welcome your thoughts. -- OJ ( talk) 21:25, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
Regarding this revert with the summary of “ Verifiability is not temporary”… what are you talking about? If it’s verifiable that the series of videos were deleted, then great, let’s verify that. Or was the dead link to a video about the deletion of those other videos? Either way, we still need a way to actually verify the claim. — 67.14.236.50 ( talk) 21:13, 26 December 2016 (UTC)
Please note that, per WP:RS/IMDb, IMDb is not considered a reliable source and should not be used in citations. That said, thanks for providing an additional citation, which not only establishes the use of the theremin but that it was considered significant in some manner, per WP:IPCV. Happy New Year! DonIago ( talk) 16:10, 30 December 2016 (UTC)
How is that statement I added to manifold wrong? Rather than remove it, can you correct it? I suspect it might be wrong from omission of finer points rather than anything else. -- ssd ( talk) 15:06, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi. I just noticed this past revision of yours, which strikes me as a POV attempt to discredit the subject of the paragraph from the very first sentence. While that’s not necessarily wrong (I’m frankly surprised there aren’t more sources that do), it makes me wonder if you’re getting too emotionally invested in this, for any reason. Feel free to delete and disregard this message if I’m way off base, but remember there is no deadline. Take care. — 67.14.236.50 ( talk) 01:15, 12 January 2017 (UTC)
The previous writing was barely comprehensible English, though the math was reasonable though somewhat tedious. I was tempted to note that the "problem" points are all countable and be done with it. However, I thought it was illuminating enough that I tried to save as much as possible.
In the previous version some obvious/basic statements or arguments (like how to compose the tangent function with a linear function) were made again and again, while the crux of the problem was obfuscated with poor explanation, in part hindered by lack of command of English. I made it readable. Alsosaid1987 ( talk) 02:03, 14 February 2017 (UTC)
The notation used in the previous version was also not explained. I don't think the reader of this article needs to see the term tangent or composition function defined. I will restore cardinality of the continuum. I also explained that is a binary expansion. Again, please read before criticizing.
I have now made the changes piecewise. None of these are unreasonable edits. These are either: defining things that are not defined or making the English grammatically correct or idiomatic. As you can see, these are not much different from my original edits (except I wasted my time doing them again). I guess I understand if you do not like LaTeX in a HTML, but I personally find it more readable. Alsosaid1987 ( talk) 02:57, 14 February 2017 (UTC)
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I do not feel that "After comparing himself to Einstein and Newton" is accurate. No where does he say "I am just like these people." I think it is a little disparaging and will remove it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Subuey ( talk • contribs) 04:53, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
OMG why are you following me to other pages — Preceding unsigned comment added by Subuey ( talk • contribs) 13:10, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
I see, the author wanted to pack into the line the constraint y = x as well. For a different constraint there might be a very little chance that 2*x=y ? But then then the outcome 2*x would be also different. Anyway I thought seeing 2*x and y side by side is enough, but you are right 2*x ≠ x is better. Well we would need x ≠ 0 as well. Proofs are hairy. Oki Doki. (Its about rollback of https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Total_derivative&type=revision&diff=775758114&oldid=770029041 ) Jan Burse ( talk) 12:01, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
Hey, thanks for the cleanup on manifolds! I'm not an expert, but I'm learning. I still think that article could use some work, but I appreciate your thoughtful contributions.
Right now, that article makes it difficult to get a general notion of what a manifold is without dropping back to special cases, such as the topological case. I don't really understand how Hausdorff fits in there. It's confusing whether it's applicable to general manifolds or topological ones. Not obvious to me whether topological and Hausdorff manifolds are one and the same, or whether Hausdorff is an extra condition against topological manifolds (most likely). I have similar difficulty with the section on manifolds with boundary. I assume that those are a special case of topological manifolds, but the article doesn't seem to contextualize them well. 47.32.217.164 ( talk) 17:28, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
The second paragraph of the section on circles introduces the relevant terminology of charts and atlases. Is this what you mean? Sławomir Biały ( talk) 16:15, 20 April 2017 (UTC)
this edit summary was very sneaky of you, since it was your edit that included the primary source. NeilN Subuey ( talk) 05:52, 2 May 2017 (UTC)
I accidentally reverted your edit at Infinite monkey theorem. Sorry, about that, I'm not what happened. Paul August ☎ 17:52, 4 May 2017 (UTC)
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I hate asking for favors, but would you let me know whether the, from the top of my head, newly and hastily written unreferenced Representation theory of the Lorentz group#Group representations from Lie algebra representations is mumbo-jumbo? YohanN7 ( talk) 08:36, 18 May 2017 (UTC)
Thanks again. I'm now sure it will come out right in the end. YohanN7 ( talk) 10:20, 19 May 2017 (UTC)
I asked about colon versus semicolon here. (No really decisive reply yet, but my bet is on the semicolon unless the next letter is capitalized ) YohanN7 ( talk) 14:08, 31 May 2017 (UTC)
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Hi, you undid my edit to the Distributions page with the reason that the original text is easier to read. Unfortunately, the original definition is wrong (and not equivalent to my edit). One way to see this is that in the original definition, the number NK would be superfluous, since satisfaction of the inequality with NK>0 would always imply satisfaction of the inequality with NK=0. See also the reference given in the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by [[User:{{{1}}}|{{{1}}}]] ([[User talk:{{{1}}}#top|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/{{{1}}}|contribs]])
Hi! Thanks four reply at WP:RD/MA re the missing context for the notation used in case of taking the partial derivative with respect to in such a way as to keep the ratio fixed in order to give the equations a precise meaning.
The context of this nonstandard partial derivative variable to be held constant refers to the representations in ternary plot of variables of composition - mole fractions in this case - that add up to a constant in the field of thermodynamics.
How do you consider the inclusion of these aspects at Partial derivative article?-- 82.137.15.34 ( talk) 12:23, 25 October 2017 (UTC)
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Your recent edit of {{ Pi box}} made the appearance of the infobox in the article Pi much too large, because of the animated image that appeared only in Pi. As, in any case, this image were misplaced in the infobox, I have removed it. D.Lazard ( talk) 12:06, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
In fact, for all , s.t.
So is not the unique number that yields an area under the curve of 1. That statement is true only if the lower bound of the interval of integration is 1. That was not specified in the original text. If you don't like my correction, please correct the text as you see fit rather than revert to an incorrect statement. Vincent ( talk) 20:43, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
Yeah, errr no. It wasn't better before because it wasn't true before. I'll revert later, but if you want to correct it yourself be my guest. Vincent ( talk) 23:17, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
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I am asking you to self-revert this edit because an obvious local consensus supported not restoring it after my initial challenged removal. (12 support removal to 8 includes). I also said on the TP why I removed the material. It appears that you forgot I had challenged that material right after it was added per NOTNEWS on April 17th. I'm not sure when it was replaced in part, don't have time to search it, but it never should have been added back, especially while there was an ongoing survey to restore. I actually have 2 reasons that support my position regarding your noncompliant edit. I am pinging NeilN since he has been overseeing that article. Atsme 📞 📧 22:35, 5 May 2018 (UTC)
Sławomir Biały, as far as I can tell, you are participating in the discussion and determining what is consensus. Which is not good. -- NeilN talk to me 22:46, 5 May 2018 (UTC)
NeilN, and everyone else here, what makes this confusing is that we're actually talking about two different versions of content. A much shorter, long-standing, version was not contested, but a much larger version was contested and the subject of edit warring. I explained this, but my comment is still the last one in the thread, and no one has responded. While the long, contested, version was deleted and being discussed, I restored the much shorter original, long-standing, version. Now people are confusing the two and more edit warring is occurring. The original, much shorter, version should remain until this dispute is settled. -- BullRangifer ( talk) PingMe 18:23, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
You removed my edit to Partial differential equation stating it is "Extremely uncommon notation". I am not a mathematician so I do not have an opinion on this but my motivation for including it was that I came across this notation on the Encyclopedia of Math website.
See also discussion.
To save other's confusion, I suggest we should either
What do you think?
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Why are you doing this? You are suppose to state why you are undoing edits. Plus you revert all the them on a page not just the parts you feel are wrong.
What is the difference now between *absolute infinite* and *infinite* to you BernardZ ( talk)
Explain what is Ungrammatical about this statement? Caesar could claim personal ties to the gods, both by descent and the office BernardZ ( talk)
Why do you consider after a date in a sentence, a comma is wrong. BernardZ ( talk)
PS Thanks for putting in exactly what you do not like about it as it least we can address your concerns now. BernardZ ( talk)
Hi, Sławek, you are the author of the section Limit of a function#More general subsets, added in May 2015 ( Special:Diff/664195051). Can you, please, add some reference to it?
I can see such general definition is useful, e.g. in higher dimensions you can sometimes find different subsets of the domain with the same limit point S, each subset easily implying its own limit at S, then conclude the 'general' limit at S does not exist. For example axes OX and OY are such subsets of R2 to show the limit of xy doesn't exist at (0, 0).
But is it actually formally defined in any book...? -- CiaPan ( talk) 08:50, 15 October 2018 (UTC)
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