"all square roots of natural numbers, other than of perfect squares, are irrational" is said in the article Irrational number can we provide a source for this? Immanuelle ( talk) 23:42, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
I'm concerned that Fourier Series, which covers a pretty important topic, has some issues, especially in the lead. It seems to be written with a more pedagogical, occasionally vague and "intuition-building" goal, rather than to summarize. There are objective problems, like the fact that the way the lead refers to images violates MOS:SEEIMAGE, but fixing this would require rewriting the lead wholesale. I'm inexperienced when it comes to fixing larger issues like this and hope someone would help. Wuffuwwuf ( talk) 20:05, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
I'm not quite sure which page(s) to raise this question on, since we don't have a WikiProject Grandiose Interdisciplinary Claims, but maybe the community here would be interested. Last year, we had a major operation to clean up Wolfspam — undisclosed paid editing by Wolfram employees. Some residual effects and general hyperbole may still need addressing. In particular, I've been looking lately at our article on A New Kind of Science. The "Contents" section still strikes me as rather vague, in that "created by a fan in the days before Wikipedia had citations" kind of way. It's all but footnote-free; even granting that a book is a valid source for its "plot summary", as it were, there's no indication of where in 1200+ pages the reader should look for a given claim. Further opinions would be welcome. XOR'easter ( talk) 19:26, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
Can someone figure out if Twists of curves has the right article name? None of the sources in the article use the term "twists of curves" at all, and honestly, I find the article extremely technical and understand literally zero percent of it. Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 02:57, 10 April 2022 (UTC)
The study of twists of curves is a very useful tool. I don't think there's anything wrong with the current title, strictly speaking, but it could perhaps be changed to "Twists of curves in algebraic geometry" or "Twists of algebraic curves" or something like that. I've no strong feelings on the matter. (It's outside my own specialization.) As for it being "extremely technical", well, when a subject isn't likely to be encountered before graduate school, sometimes that's just the way it goes. In practical terms, it's probably more worthwhile to work on making elliptic curve a comprehensible introduction, as that is a prerequisite and more likely to be encountered. We can't build every niche mathematical topic up from Algebra 101 in its own article. XOR'easter ( talk) 03:34, 10 April 2022 (UTC)
I moved boldly Twists of curves to Twists of elliptic curves. This is clearer than Twist of an algebraic curve, since there is no indication in the article that the concept extends to other algebraic curves. D.Lazard ( talk) 21:01, 10 April 2022 (UTC)
In YBC 7289, I've read this sentence.
I still don't get it, even though I had read the cited sources before. My bad for asking this one (if this is kinda silly), cause I don't fully understand it. I appreciate that someone answers this question. Regards, Dedhert.Jr ( talk) 07:21, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
I added a {{ dubious}} tag to a statement in Sphere packing#Dense packing and started a discussion at Talk:Sphere packing#FCC and HCP are not both lattices?. Input is welcome. Toshio Yamaguchi ( talk) 12:09, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
For the Table of congruences, I can find references for each of the content in the article, but I couldn't find any references for the list. -- SilverMatsu ( talk) 08:50, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
There are two potential definitions of subbase in topology. The second one seems dubiously sourced. I have started a discussion at Talk:Subbase#Alternate definition section. Would appreciate any input. PatrickR2 ( talk) 05:34, 16 April 2022 (UTC)
[1] Doug Weller talk 08:05, 16 April 2022 (UTC)
Complex conjugate vector space makes no sense. A complex conjugate vector space, as defined there, is just a complex vector space. I suggest deleting it. 172.82.47.212 ( talk) 19:57, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
I don't really know what to make of this page. It seems to be a guided walk-through of how to solve different classes of differential equations rather than a coverage of examples in the sense of the Examples of Markov chains or the Examples of groups. Everything encyclopedic here seems to overlap with the articles for the individual types of differential equation or the Linear differential equation article. I thought I'd check here to see what others think. Options I could see would include blanking and redirecting to Differential equations#Examples or starting the nucleus of an actual page of examples in the spirit of the other pages mentioned above by only retaining the barebones of the oscillating motion example. Felix QW ( talk) 10:06, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
In the sentences as follow:
Classical historians debate whether Pythagoras made these discoveries, and many of the accomplishments credited to him likely originated earlier or were made by his colleagues or successors
didn't have any cited source. And I did the same thing in Indonesian Wikipedia. But someone already reverted my edit and told me that the cited source has already been in a sentence in one of the sections, that is
Modern scholars debate whether these numerological teachings were developed by Pythagoras himself or by the later Pythagorean philosopher Philolaus of Croton.
And I'm not very sure that the sentence in an introduction can be the same as that sentence in Numerology. Maybe someone can explain this thing, cause I'm afraid that I misunderstand it. Regards, Dedhert.Jr ( talk) 11:41, 20 April 2022 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Fixed point (mathematics)#Requested move 8 April 2022 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Favonian ( talk) 08:34, 23 April 2022 (UTC)
Looking at some of the current drafts on mathematicians, I have been wondering whether the fellowship of the AMS satisifes Criterion #3 of NPROF. The AMS is certainly a "major scholarly society", but I was wondering whether its own admission that the goals of the fellowship program include "lift[ing] the morale of the profession by providing an honor more accessible than those currently available" means that it is not a "highly selective honour" in the sense of the notes to NPROF#3. Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Felix QW ( talk) 08:42, 22 April 2022 (UTC)
I've had a go at writing something on the Kahn–Kalai conjecture, but have run out of mathematical knowledge in the relevant field. Hopefully what I have written is not gibberish, but I know when I'm out of my depth. Can anybody more knowledgeable help? — The Anome ( talk) 09:14, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
This article is very messy due to some animations having a massive scale, so I can't even possibly feel comfortable while reading. Dedhert.Jr ( talk) 10:55, 24 April 2022 (UTC)
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"all square roots of natural numbers, other than of perfect squares, are irrational" is said in the article Irrational number can we provide a source for this? Immanuelle ( talk) 23:42, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
I'm concerned that Fourier Series, which covers a pretty important topic, has some issues, especially in the lead. It seems to be written with a more pedagogical, occasionally vague and "intuition-building" goal, rather than to summarize. There are objective problems, like the fact that the way the lead refers to images violates MOS:SEEIMAGE, but fixing this would require rewriting the lead wholesale. I'm inexperienced when it comes to fixing larger issues like this and hope someone would help. Wuffuwwuf ( talk) 20:05, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
I'm not quite sure which page(s) to raise this question on, since we don't have a WikiProject Grandiose Interdisciplinary Claims, but maybe the community here would be interested. Last year, we had a major operation to clean up Wolfspam — undisclosed paid editing by Wolfram employees. Some residual effects and general hyperbole may still need addressing. In particular, I've been looking lately at our article on A New Kind of Science. The "Contents" section still strikes me as rather vague, in that "created by a fan in the days before Wikipedia had citations" kind of way. It's all but footnote-free; even granting that a book is a valid source for its "plot summary", as it were, there's no indication of where in 1200+ pages the reader should look for a given claim. Further opinions would be welcome. XOR'easter ( talk) 19:26, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
Can someone figure out if Twists of curves has the right article name? None of the sources in the article use the term "twists of curves" at all, and honestly, I find the article extremely technical and understand literally zero percent of it. Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 02:57, 10 April 2022 (UTC)
The study of twists of curves is a very useful tool. I don't think there's anything wrong with the current title, strictly speaking, but it could perhaps be changed to "Twists of curves in algebraic geometry" or "Twists of algebraic curves" or something like that. I've no strong feelings on the matter. (It's outside my own specialization.) As for it being "extremely technical", well, when a subject isn't likely to be encountered before graduate school, sometimes that's just the way it goes. In practical terms, it's probably more worthwhile to work on making elliptic curve a comprehensible introduction, as that is a prerequisite and more likely to be encountered. We can't build every niche mathematical topic up from Algebra 101 in its own article. XOR'easter ( talk) 03:34, 10 April 2022 (UTC)
I moved boldly Twists of curves to Twists of elliptic curves. This is clearer than Twist of an algebraic curve, since there is no indication in the article that the concept extends to other algebraic curves. D.Lazard ( talk) 21:01, 10 April 2022 (UTC)
In YBC 7289, I've read this sentence.
I still don't get it, even though I had read the cited sources before. My bad for asking this one (if this is kinda silly), cause I don't fully understand it. I appreciate that someone answers this question. Regards, Dedhert.Jr ( talk) 07:21, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
I added a {{ dubious}} tag to a statement in Sphere packing#Dense packing and started a discussion at Talk:Sphere packing#FCC and HCP are not both lattices?. Input is welcome. Toshio Yamaguchi ( talk) 12:09, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
For the Table of congruences, I can find references for each of the content in the article, but I couldn't find any references for the list. -- SilverMatsu ( talk) 08:50, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
There are two potential definitions of subbase in topology. The second one seems dubiously sourced. I have started a discussion at Talk:Subbase#Alternate definition section. Would appreciate any input. PatrickR2 ( talk) 05:34, 16 April 2022 (UTC)
[1] Doug Weller talk 08:05, 16 April 2022 (UTC)
Complex conjugate vector space makes no sense. A complex conjugate vector space, as defined there, is just a complex vector space. I suggest deleting it. 172.82.47.212 ( talk) 19:57, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
I don't really know what to make of this page. It seems to be a guided walk-through of how to solve different classes of differential equations rather than a coverage of examples in the sense of the Examples of Markov chains or the Examples of groups. Everything encyclopedic here seems to overlap with the articles for the individual types of differential equation or the Linear differential equation article. I thought I'd check here to see what others think. Options I could see would include blanking and redirecting to Differential equations#Examples or starting the nucleus of an actual page of examples in the spirit of the other pages mentioned above by only retaining the barebones of the oscillating motion example. Felix QW ( talk) 10:06, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
In the sentences as follow:
Classical historians debate whether Pythagoras made these discoveries, and many of the accomplishments credited to him likely originated earlier or were made by his colleagues or successors
didn't have any cited source. And I did the same thing in Indonesian Wikipedia. But someone already reverted my edit and told me that the cited source has already been in a sentence in one of the sections, that is
Modern scholars debate whether these numerological teachings were developed by Pythagoras himself or by the later Pythagorean philosopher Philolaus of Croton.
And I'm not very sure that the sentence in an introduction can be the same as that sentence in Numerology. Maybe someone can explain this thing, cause I'm afraid that I misunderstand it. Regards, Dedhert.Jr ( talk) 11:41, 20 April 2022 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Fixed point (mathematics)#Requested move 8 April 2022 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Favonian ( talk) 08:34, 23 April 2022 (UTC)
Looking at some of the current drafts on mathematicians, I have been wondering whether the fellowship of the AMS satisifes Criterion #3 of NPROF. The AMS is certainly a "major scholarly society", but I was wondering whether its own admission that the goals of the fellowship program include "lift[ing] the morale of the profession by providing an honor more accessible than those currently available" means that it is not a "highly selective honour" in the sense of the notes to NPROF#3. Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Felix QW ( talk) 08:42, 22 April 2022 (UTC)
I've had a go at writing something on the Kahn–Kalai conjecture, but have run out of mathematical knowledge in the relevant field. Hopefully what I have written is not gibberish, but I know when I'm out of my depth. Can anybody more knowledgeable help? — The Anome ( talk) 09:14, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
This article is very messy due to some animations having a massive scale, so I can't even possibly feel comfortable while reading. Dedhert.Jr ( talk) 10:55, 24 April 2022 (UTC)
I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like
John Smith "[https://www.deprecated.com/article Article of things]" ''Deprecated.com''. Accessed 2020-02-14.
)and turns it into something like
It will work on a variety of links, including those from {{ cite web}}, {{ cite journal}} and {{ doi}}.
The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.
Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.
This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 16:01, 29 April 2022 (UTC)