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History of combinatorics

I noticed you like Combinatorics. I feel recent changes to History of combinatorics are pretty ridiculous. I thought you might consider working on that article. Thanks, Mhym (talk) 06:45, 6 March 2018 (UTC)

Hi Mhym, you mean this edit from a couple days ago? I will try to find time to look it over. All the best, JBL (talk) 12:01, 6 March 2018 (UTC)

Yes. See e.g. the last sentence. I seriously doubt that Stanley's impact is in Matroid Theory "and more". Mhym (talk) 21:18, 6 March 2018 (UTC)

Ok, thanks. Spring break is just starting, I will sit down and take a good hard look. (The diff is too complicated to read at a glance, which is my usual editing approach.) --JBL (talk) 16:07, 9 March 2018 (UTC)

@Mhym: oh it's really oddly focused on poset theory, isn't it? (Like, I'm happy to see Rota and Stanley get mentnioned, but no graph theory or Erdos? No connections to algebra or other fields? Very odd.) Well, I've started with the ancient stuff, but I'll definitely get to the contemporary section eventually and try to do something more comprehensive with that. --JBL (talk) 19:57, 10 March 2018 (UTC)

Promotion of Affine symmetric group

Congratulations, JayBeeEll! The article you nominated, Affine symmetric group, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best articles on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.

This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured article. Keep up the great work! Cheers, Gog the Mild (talk) via FACBot (talk) 00:05, 23 August 2023 (UTC)

Congratulations! Folly Mox (talk) 18:58, 23 August 2023 (UTC)

Thank you! 😁 --JBL (talk) 19:10, 23 August 2023 (UTC)

October songs

my story today

Thank you today for the article, "about a mathematical object that is of interest to pure mathematicians in a wide array of areas. I believe this article presents a comprehensive account of its subject, including its multiple definitions (and why they are equivalent), its many interesting properties and substructures, and its substantial connections to other mathematical objects (especially the "usual" finite symmetric group of permutations, which appears in nearly every corner of mathematics). While the affine symmetric group is not usually encountered outside the context of research mathematics (say, by PhD students or professional researchers), I believe the article is written so that significant portions of it can be appreciated by readers with a more modest mathematical background, and nearly all of it appreciated by an undergraduate who has taken a first course in group theory." Enjoy your first TFA day! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:47, 8 October 2023 (UTC)

Dear Gerda, thank you very much! --JBL (talk) 18:10, 8 October 2023 (UTC)

Thank you! - More pics, and today's story is on a birthday, and the real DYK was already on that birthday --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:12, 17 October 2023 (UTC)

Today, it's a place that inspired me, musings if you have time. My corner for memory and music has today a juxtaposition of what our local church choirs offer. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:01, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

Musical key edits

@Binksternet and Gerda Arendt: I know bupkis about music; do these recent edits make sense? Last two edits here, last four edits here, [1]. Thanks, JBL (talk) 18:03, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

F minor and E-sharp minor should remain on the same page as established in 2011 with this discussion. If someone wants to re-organize all of these articles, they should gain consensus through a project-wide discussion. Binksternet (talk) 18:28, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

It can stay there, of practically no use in music, so fine at the end of almost whatever article. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:47, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

Thank you both! All the best, JBL (talk) 18:56, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

Binomial theorem for floor and ceiling functions

Thank you for this note and deletion. I must have been massively brainwashed this morning not to note this obvious fact that floor(x+n) = floor(x)+n, for integer n :) Guswen (talk) 20:44, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

You're welcome. --JBL (talk) 17:53, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

0

I took some thwacks at improving the article 0, because it turns out to be among the most frequently-visited math pages and it did silly things like drop the term "additive identity" into the second line without a definition. It could use additional thwacks by somebody else for a more varied perspective. XOR'easter (talk) 18:40, 24 November 2023 (UTC)

Interesting, thanks -- I'll see what I can do! --JBL (talk) 20:49, 24 November 2023 (UTC)

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Help needed regarding Whitespaces

Hellow JayBeeEll, regarding all your warnings about whitespaces on articles, I'm now in need of any link or source about the proper usage/guidelines/maintenance of whitespaces, so that I'll never ever make any unwanted vandalism in future! Thanking at the end, keep up great works on Mathematics-related articles :) Billjones94 (talk) 05:33, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

@Billjones94: The principle is incredibly straightforward: if you can't articulate a clear reason that an edit is an unambiguous improvement, don't make it. Is removing a single space that does not change the appearance of the page an improvement? No, it is obviously not (and meanwhile it is a nuisance to other editors whose watchlists get spammed with pointless fiddling) -- therefore don't do it. If you are making some edit that otherwise has some beneficial purpose and, incidentally at the same time, you remove some whitespaces like this, no one will mind -- but that's because of the other (useful) part of the edit.

I hope this is clear and helpful; if not, please feel free to query further. Happy editing, JBL (talk) 17:15, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

Some great guidance, thanking you again :) Billjones94 (talk) 18:11, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

Supersolvable lattice

Happy holidays JayBeeEll! I've taken advantage of the mental space given by a few days off to write Draft:Supersolvable lattice. This is my first article on mathematics. You have a lot more experience with such articles, and I'm also pretty sure that you've encountered the definition, though possibly only in passing. Would you be willing to glance through and assess whether you think it's ready for mainspace? Disclosing that I cite my own work in a minor way in one place (for I think good reasons). Thank you! Russ Woodroofe (talk) 18:28, 23 December 2023 (UTC)

Hey Russ Woodroofe, cool! I personally am very comfortable with the level of self-citation there. There's something wrong with some of your references -- when I mouse over/click on the harvtxt link, it should highlight/jump to the corresponding bibliography entry. Maybe you need to give all authors for the harvtxt template to find the right thing, not just the first? I have only looked superficially so far (packing for holiday travel) but I don't see any reason not to move it in to main-space. I will look more closely within the next week (but I think it would be fine if you moved it to main-space before then). Happy holidays! --JBL (talk) 20:20, 23 December 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for taking a look, and especially for noticing the trouble with harvtxt. I hadn't used that before, and misread the documentation. Anyway, fixed this, cleaned up a few other things, and moved to mainspace! Thanks again. Russ Woodroofe (talk) 21:48, 23 December 2023 (UTC)

Hi Russ,

Ok I looked a little closer, and really that's a great new math article. I see you've done a good job de-orphaning it, and given it the most reasonable category. I made a few minor edits. Here are a couple of additional comments:

• In the section Motivation (about which, by the way, I wish more math articles had), the reference to Stanley is functioning as a primary source; is there a secondary source that could be used to augment it (maybe one of the other references already present?).
• Is it normal to put the "EL" in "EL-labeling" in math mode, as in the section Properties?
• Is there a reasonable way to give the EL-labeling characterization within the context of this article? (Maybe not, because it requires giving a full exposition of EL-labelings?)

Merry Christmas,

JBL (talk) 00:23, 26 December 2023 (UTC)

Hi JBL. Thanks again for reading. Apologies for taking a minute to get back: I'm slower over the holidays than I expected, and I needed to think about the Motivation section. I am actually unsure if I am engaging in WP:SYNTH in that section, although it is minor if I am. Stanley says not much more "this explains our terminology‚ 'supersolvable 1attice'" (well, a tiny bit more at the front of the article), Stern says something similar in his book. But the maximal modular chain connection is pretty clear.

Anyway: in motivation, I added a citation to Stern. I also described a litte more of the connection with subgroup lattices. (Here too, the motivation for Dedekind to introduce modular lattices apparently was to generalize behavior he'd observed in abelian/Hamiltonian groups; finding a reliable source that says this straightforwardly is surprisingly difficult.) As far as the rest, I briefly described the edge labeling, and unitalicized EL (I think I've seen it both ways, but maybe it's just me that usually italicized).

It would be good to expand this modestly. It would also be good to describe the fiber type arrangement stuff of Terao. I'm less familiar with this last aspect of the theory. Thanks again! Russ Woodroofe (talk) 20:43, 28 December 2023 (UTC)

@Russ Woodroofe: No apology necessary, to be sure -- obviously between the two of us you're the more responsive one to messages :). It is perpetually frustrating how infrequently people write down sentences explaining the motivation that is widely understood by experts -- I think your attempt to extract what can be said is great. Thanks again for this nice article! --JBL (talk) 18:11, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

Season's greetings

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Thank you! Season's greetings, and may you have a happy new year! --JBL (talk) 22:29, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

Merry Christmas

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Hello JayBeeEll: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, --Dustfreeworld (talk) 13:21, 25 December 2023 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for E (mathematical constant)

E (mathematical constant) has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 19:14, 30 December 2023 (UTC)

Happy New Year, JayBeeEll!

Happy New Year!

JayBeeEll,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
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Thanks, Abishe -- best wishes to you, as well. --JBL (talk) 22:56, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the patient conversation on the noticeboard :)

I got bit a few times by more experienced people (partially probably justified, partially probably not), so I really appreciate the extra patience you and a few others showed me on the noticeboard :) FortunateSons (talk) 21:12, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

@FortunateSons: You're very welcome! It looked to me you were asking good questions and approaching things in a thoughtful way, so it was pleasant to chat with you. Happy editing! JBL (talk) 17:28, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

Thank you, it was very pleasant for me too! Happy editing to you as well :) FortunateSons (talk) 18:03, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

A cupcake for you!

For your excellent Parabolic subgroup of a reflection group article. Cheers! Chanaka L (talk) 01:59, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

@Chanakal: Thanks very much! --JBL (talk) 17:53, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

Permutation matrices

Regarding one of your last edits in the permutation matrices article: I think the way that the introduction is written is somewhat misleading in the current state. While you are right that it is true that a permutation matrix multiplied from the left permutes the rows, i.e., $PM$ and from the left the columns $MP$, for the same permutation matrix $P$, this would lead to inconsistent permutations, because if $P$ multiplied from the right leads to a permutation according to, e.g., $1->2->3->1$, permutations with $P$ from the left lead to $1->3->2->1$. That's why I agree with the previous edit transposing the permutation matrix. I'm quite new here, so I am not sure if this is the right place to discuss this, I just think it would help intuitive understanding of the article. J-s-schmidt1 (talk) 13:55, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

Hi J-s-schmidt1, thanks for your message. The best place to discuss changes to a single article is on the article talk-page (so in this case at Talk:Permutation matrix), so that anyone who edits the page can participate; is it ok with you if I copy your message over there to respond? --JBL (talk) 20:11, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

Hi @JayBeeEll, yes of course moving my message is alright, thank you for your answer! JS J-s-schmidt1 (talk) 10:13, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

@J-s-schmidt1: Thanks; I have copied your comment and responded over there. --JBL (talk) 19:12, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

George B. Purdy

Source - email with archivist Sally Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign:

Hello Michael,

Thank you for reaching out to the University Archives at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign! I understand you're interested in determining if George B. Purdy acknowledged Paul Erdős in his thesis.

I have been able to confirm that this is the case--in the acknowledgments section of Some Extremal Problems in Geometry and the Theory of Numbers, Erdős is the second person listed overall, only after Paul T. Bateman. The acknowledgment states: "I also wish to thank Professor Paul Erdős for introducing me to extremal problems in geometry and for suggesting the problem solved in Chapter III" (p. 5).

I hope this information is helpful! Please feel free to reach out with any other questions. Thank you for contacting the University Archives!

Sincerely,

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Turtlens (talk) 03:34, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

Yes, and? My revert has nothing to do with the underlying truth of the proposition "Purdy acknowledged Erdos in his thesis". If you'd like to continue this discussion (such as it is), please do so at the article's talk-page, not here. --JBL (talk) 20:25, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

Just hit preview

I didn't want to clutter up a cluttered thread with this comment, especially since I don't know that it even applies. But the remark is a pet peeve of mine so I am just letting you know that depending on the platform, the preview button may not work and on mobile or mobile desktop it is certainly not reliable. Just an fyi. Elinruby (talk) 23:40, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

@Elinruby: Good to know, thanks! Happy editing, JBL (talk) 23:51, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

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A request for clarification

In this edit you gave no explanation at all for restoring an edit which I had reverted, with an explanation. Can you explain your reason? I'm sure an editor with your amount of editing experience must be acquainted with WP:BRD. JBW (talk) 16:02, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

Hi JBW, my apologies -- I could have sworn I wrote a descriptive edit summary, but obviously I screwed up somehow. Briefly, I reverted for three reasons: (1) your edit summary suggests that the substitution "contradictory" -> "false" was recent, but that's wrong: "false" has been in the article for years, it was changed recently and was swiftly reverted (not by me). (2) "Contradictory" is a relative term; a result can't be "contradictory" all by itself, it needs to be in contradiction with something else. So I don't think the sentence works as you left it. (3) I am not impressed with the idea that it is somehow improper to write, "The statement that the complex number 1 is equal to the complex number -1 is false" -- indeed I think the sentence I've put in quotes is more or less universally understood, correct, and uncotroversial. If you'd like to discuss this further, may I suggest that we continue on the article talk-page, rather than here? --JBL (talk) 19:25, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

P.S. I just saw the note on your talk-page; best wishes for a swift recovery! --JBL (talk) 20:05, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

Firstly, thanks for your good wishes. Secondly, thanks for your answer to my question. I don't really see any need to discuss it further. I am perhaps to blame for not checking the editing history and seeing that I was restoring a recent change, not a long-standing version. More importantly, though, having thought further about the matter, I have decided that the version you restored is more likely to be helpful to a typical reader than the other, whichever might be considered more justifiable in terms of mathematical formalism. JBW (talk) 21:33, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

Incidentally, in relation to your remark 'a result can't be "contradictory" all by itself, it needs to be in contradiction with something else', I read 'contradictory results" (plural) as meaning "results which contradict one another", not "results each of which by itself is contradictory", which would of course have been nonsense. JBW (talk) 21:39, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

Sarah Jeong

Please explain why you reverted my edit on Sarah Jeong. Are you seriously suggesting the omission of any of her tweets which garnered significant controversy? Zilch-nada (talk) 00:45, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

You have (sensibly) opened a discussion on the article's talk-page; it was silly to open a parallel discussion here, as we can discuss it there. But you should begin by reading the extensive past discussion of this question in the archives there. --JBL (talk) 00:48, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

I have looked at nothing more than tangential discussions from more 6 years ago. I am only asking you to elaborate, beyond just "it's not consensus". Zilch-nada (talk) 00:51, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

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Thanks

Hey, thanks for your advice. I've now presented as much evidence as I could scrape up. Hopefully a checkuser will now see the evidence and block the sock. NoobThreePointOh (talk) 22:23, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

@NoobThreePointOh: Looks like it worked! --JBL (talk) 18:10, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

Sure did, and Ed gave me the green light to add a block notice on the sock's talk page (though sadly, I'm sure they'll sock once more to the point where it becomes a "here we go again" moment). NoobThreePointOh (talk) 18:30, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

Ordered field

Hmm, the importance of the two choices of sign is that these are the only ways to define an ordering on $\mathbb {R} ((x))$ (or, more generally, to extend an ordering of an ordered base field to the Laurent series field); maybe that could be noted there. 1234qwer1234qwer4 19:47, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

Hi 1234qwer1234qwer4, thanks for your message. I will take your word for it that these are the only two ordered field structures on $\mathbb {R} ((x))$ (it is not obvious to me, but I haven't thought about it very hard). That seems to me like a reasonably interesting fact about the ring of formal Laurent series; indeed sufficiently interesting that, if you have a citation for it (because it's well beyond WP:CALC), I would strongly encourange you to add it to the article formal Laurent series. The place that you did add it is a list of examples of ordered fields. Generally, the purpose of such an "Examples" section is to quickly introduce readers to important examples; in my opinion, this is undermined by adding too much information about the individual examples. (If you wanted this grounded in Wikipedia content policies, the one that seems most relevant to me is WP:DUE.) If you still disagree, I suggest bringing the issue to the article talk-page, and perhaps adding a notification at WT:WPM, to get some additional opinions. All the best, JBL (talk) 18:18, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

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Undone revision 1217137608 from Eight queens puzzle on 2024-04-04

I'd like to apologize for my incorrect correction. I mistakenly interpreted the n^k mentioned to mean width n and dimension k. I looked up the paper cited, and I understand it correctly now. I will try to be more careful with my corrections going forward. Thank you for correctly correcting me.

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Hi Viliam Furík, thanks for your message. No apology needed, I'm sure! The sentence there is really not very clear, it's not surprising to me that someone could be confused by it. Unfortunately I haven't had a chance in the last few days to think about how to write it more clearly. Happy editing, JBL (talk) 00:48, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

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could i ask your help updating the summary here Tonymetz 💬 23:57, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

Hi Tonymetz, that discussion ended and was archived two weeks ago; no one viewing it in the future is going to be confused about whether it ended with any clear conclusion (beyond the warning you received from Bishonen). If it were still on the front page WP:ANI, I might consider adding a closing statement (because it would sit around for a day or two and other editors would have the opportunity to object), but I don't think it's appropriate for anyone to add a closing statement long after a discussion has been archived and receded from view. (I mean you could restore the whole discussion to WP:ANI on the grounds that it never reached much of a conclusion -- but that seems like a terrible idea.) I hope these comments are helpful, even if they are not what you requested. Happy editing, JBL (talk) 00:30, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

My concern is that a long serpentine ANI thread will be perceived as a blemished reputation. In the end no action was taken. The warning was given prior to ANI Tonymetz 💬 01:36, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

I think your reputation (not a real thing btw) will survive. If you simply cannot abide with this discussion having been archived without a closure statement, you can restore the whole discussion to WP:ANI and request that; but that seems like an incredibly bad idea for several reasons, and will be most likely to result in drawing negative attention to yourself. FWIW, any uninvolved party closing the discussion will certainly include in their closure statement that you were warned by Bishonen, as that fact is a prominent feature of the discussion. --JBL (talk) 17:41, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

that's my point. but anyway, thanks for helping come up with options. I agree that's not practical. Tonymetz 💬 18:18, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

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How come is this off topic?

You recently deleted my comment at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard [2] citing off topic, general content? How come is that off topic and general content ? What I said is related to the topic that was at hand there. അദ്വൈതൻ (talk) 21:35, 26 June 2024 (UTC)

The WP:RSN thread is about the reliability of the TimesNowNews source; your comment did not address that question at all, instead you continued an argument from elsewhere about the Western Standard.

Is English your native language? (I ask because you seem to have some difficulty communicating clearly.) --JBL (talk) 21:34, 28 June 2024 (UTC)

reversion made without comment?

JayBeeEll

The edit you reverted simply claimed that Wantzel made a conclusion that ONLY the equation cited could solve the problem. I cited the paper that supports the claim. That document (link below) includes this allegory.

Consider the goal is to put a nail into a board and there are no hammers. Wantzel might have said:

Hammers put nails in boards. I have no hammer; thus nails cannot be put in the board.

Why is the statement after the semicolon false? Because other tools can put nails in boards. [ and three solutions without hammers are shown ] .

As a non(academic) my work is not eligible to be included in academic-only web sites for a review. I have created a construction that functions using the tools available to euclid and the babylonians. How else to introduce this to remove another in the long list of items widely held, but no longer accurate? Those include "man will never travel faster than a good horse."

I'd appreciate some guidance.

Jonathan E. Jaffe

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Jonathan E. Jaffe (talk) 11:33, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

Hi Jonathan E. Jaffe,

Thanks for your message. My reversion was not made without comment, I left the following edit summary: rv self-promotion. ("rv" is local jargon for "revert".) Your addition was based on your own unpublished manuscript: this is a clear violation of our policy WP:NOR, which forbids the addition of original research to Wikipedia. I do not have any suggestions for how to get around this situation because, in my opinion, the rule that applies here is a good rule that functions correctly in this case. If you want other opinions or advice, you could ask at the WP:TEAHOUSE.

Unrelated to this question, I glanced at your manuscript. It appears to me that you have, in essence, rediscovered a version of the construction described in the section Angle_trisection#Approximation_by_successive_bisections. This does not represent a solution to the problem considered by Watzel, which does not concern itself with the practical question of trisecting an angle in practice up to measurement or observation error, but instead is concerned with an abstract mathematical model (axiomatic Euclidean geometry) in which lines have no width, planes have no thickness, etc. If you have not read The Trisectors by Underwood Dudley (cited in our article), I recommend it to you.

Best of luck, JBL (talk) 20:17, 3 August 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for the detailed response. Papers from non(professional academics) are not accepted in academic pre-press for peer review hence I was the only one who knew about it.

What Dudley describes is a "proof". Mine is a "construction". It works in the real world using only the tools and limitations faced by Euclid and the Babylonians. In science "practice" trumps "theory" and some note should be made that trisection can be done. Wantzel's "negative proof" wasn't an error in math, it was an error in logic. It is described in the paper including the allegory above.

Unfortunately as even my Wikipedia account was deleted I won't get notification of your response.

Please send email to me at jejaffe

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Hi Jonathan E. Jaffe,

Your Wikipedia account was not deleted: what was deleted was your user page (the page User:Jonathan E. Jaffe) where you had initially posted your first comment, before finding the correct way to contact me (on this page). This does not prevent you from logging in to your account and using your account to edit.

Unfortunately, the fact that your work has not been published means that it is not suitable for use as a reference on Wikipedia.

(It is not actually true that academic publishers are unwilling to publish work from people who are not professional academics -- I have many friends who have been able to publish academic papers after leaving academia, and I have mentored the research of many groups of undergraduate students, some of which has been published. Since your work doesn't make any real attempt to adhere to the conventions of the field to which you feel it belongs, it is not too surprising that you would not have been able to publish it with a reputable publisher. I think a good example of this failure to engage with the field is visible in our exchange, when you simply ignored my reference to Angle_trisection#Approximation_by_successive_bisections. People are not generally willing to go out of their way to help someone who claims to understand something all mathematicians have failed to grasp for the last 200 years, who also doesn't seem to listen.)

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"To recurse"

Re this revert, I'm pretty sure "to recurse" is a widely-accepted verb, but possibly only in computer science; it is used in Recursion (computer science) (and I certainly didn't add it). I grew up using this word, though that's hardly an unbiassed sample and certainly isn't a citation. The pronounciation is different for "re-curse" and "recurse"; the vowel "u" in "recurse" is long, as in "recursion" (there's a sound file at wiktionary:recurse). That said, I don't deeply care if the article has dictionary links. HLHJ (talk) 21:01, 13 October 2024 (UTC)

Hi HLHJ, thanks for your message. About "recurse", I think we agree about the situation broadly. I am an academic mathematician and I would expect other mathematicians to understand if I said "and then we recurse through previous cases". But I think the word is a piece of informal jargon, not understood or recognized outside of the fairly specialized context of mathematics and computer science. As a point of evidence in favor of this view, I note that "recurse" is not in Merriam-Webster or dictionary.com (these are the first (only) two general-interest dictionaries I checked). --JBL (talk) 17:29, 16 October 2024 (UTC)

Ah, we do largely agree. Apologies for the misunderstanding. My old concise OED does not contain "recurse", nor actually "recursion". I think there are enough academic papers using "recurse" that it is, at least, formal jargon of some fields. In some non-subject-specific social circles, "recurse" gets used as an ordinary non-jargon verb, and I think I've used it to explain the whole point-the-camera-at-the-livefeed thing to a small child. It is actually useful in everyday conversation.

That said, I imagine only people who need to think or talk about recursion regularly find the word particularly useful; people in comsci, math, some fields of tech and visual arts. I'd think anyone looking up the recursion article might be entering that class, though, and thus might actually want the word, in the same way they want to learn recursive and recursion. They might even be looking up what "recurse" means on Wikipedia. At worst, they don't need to know and promptly forget.

So I favour including it. But it's pretty easy to guess from a basic knowledge of English, which most readers will have, so I'm not too fashed about it. HLHJ (talk) 18:28, 16 October 2024 (UTC)

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Fundamental theorem of calculus

Hi. I am planning to expand Fundamental theorem of calculus via my sandbox here. I was wondering if I might dismantle and rewrite the whole article, you would probably disagree with what have I done. Would you like to give some suggestions before heading this article into B-class or possibly high-class? Many thanks. Dedhert.Jr (talk) 13:22, 3 November 2024 (UTC)

Hi Dedhert.Jr, thanks for your message. My relationship with Fundamental theorem of calculus is that I tend to protect it on a local basis, without thinking very much about the article globally. Looking it over briefly right now, I am sure that a more global perspective on the whole article could yield improvements. I would not stand in the way of you making such a large-scale change to the article. Given my current time availability, I don't think I can make significant contributions to your effort, but if you would like help with copyediting or spot-checking or prose-polishing certain sections in your draft, I would be happy to try to do that -- let me know. --JBL (talk) 18:56, 3 November 2024 (UTC)

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