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[edit] Welcome
Welcome. I saw your article on pseudoholomorphic curves, which goes far beyond my knowledge. Usually, newcomers have to be helped along a bit, but you are doing great so there is not that much for me to do. I did indent the equation displays, as is usual here, and I also made all the headings on the same level (which I assume is what you want). Usually, we try not to formulas in the running text which are rendered as PNG, see Wikipedia:How to write a Wikipedia article on mathematics, but this is not universally agreed upon, so I did not change that. Finally, the "See also" section is normally reserved for links that are not mentioned in the rest of the article.
You might be interested in the WikiProject Mathematics, which is just a bunch of people who like to work on maths articles. Look at the list of participants to find other mathematicians and perhaps include yourself in the list.
Well, I hope that you like it here and that you continue contributing. Feel free to ask me any questions on my talk page.
All the best,
Jitse Niesen (talk) 18:46, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for your interesting contributions. Charles Matthews 20:53, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Science pearls
Hi,
Please notice the above project. As a mathematician, you might be especially interested in List of publications in mathematics
I’ll appreciate any help. Thank, APH 10:06, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Please vote on list of lists, a featured list candidate
Please vote at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of lists of mathematical topics. Michael Hardy 20:53, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Here you'll learn who wrote most of the Floer homology article
Hallo Joshua, da du auf deiner userpage "Deutsch" hast, schreibe ich dir einfach mal auf deutsch.
Hier ist zu finden, wer den größten Teil des Floer homology artikels geschrieben hat: User_talk:Erkabo. Wir vier von Erkabo, die wir ja nichts von der Mathematik verstehen, freuen uns, dass die Arbeit unseres Freundes Andreas jetzt auch in der Wikipedia so großes Interesse findet.
Vielen Dank, herzliche Grüße! Rolf von: Erkabo 06:47, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
- Danke für die Erklärung. Es freut mich, euch kennenzulernen. Bitte entschuldigt mein Schreiben; Lesen ist einfacher. Joshuardavis 13:30, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
Vielen Dank, Joshua! Wir freuen uns, dass Andreas auch noch heute Menschen dazu bringt, miteinander zu reden. Rolf von Erkabo 14:25, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
Josh, I'm responding to your message regarding the pseudoholomorphic curve article. I referenced it incorrectly and noticed the article you wrote only after I'd begun the other; I abandoned it at that point. Best, David Farris 06:39, 25 October 2005 (UTC) , now with an account!
[edit] Moment map
Thanks for the new moment map article. Looks good. I've been meaning to write that one for awhile. -- Fropuff 17:07, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Morse homology
Thank you for making those improvements! I adjusted a few things, and took the opportunity to flesh out some things that were still rather sketchy in the article. I assume by 'morse-theoretic properties' you meant 'smooth properties', and i edited it to accordingly standardize the terminology. (If that's not the case, could you tell me what that meant?)David Farris 02:42, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
And thanks once again for the further corrections! David Farris 19:14, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Unfortunately the chain complexes C * (M,(f,g)) are still formatting badly, at least on my machine. I switched them to TeX in the hopes that they'd improve, but the system cleverly uses HTML as much as possible. I could force the matter, but I don't care quite enough. Cheers. Joshuardavis 19:30, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Edits on Roma People article
Thanks for opening up the "Fictional Representations" section and letting in some air. I was starting to get claustrophobic looking at that huge monolithic block of text. --ILike2BeAnonymous 20:15, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] WikiProject Physics
Hi, I just discovered moment map; nice article! I invite you to join the conversations on the talk page of Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics; you might also be interesed in Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics. -- linas 19:21, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Compass and straightedge
I'd appreciate your comment on Talk:Compass and straightedge. Thank you. John Reid 23:48, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Vandalism warnings on User talk:65.96.80.88
Hi! I looked a the edit history. There was a very busy vandal using that IP on October 26. Then there was a single vandalism on November 7. Then another single vandalism today. We can't be certain that a person using a particular IP address today is the same as the person who was using it a week or two ago, and nothing in the edits ties the single vandalism from today to any of the earlier ones. So I gave him the appropriate warning based on what we can see from the edit history. -- Jim Douglas (talk) (contribs) 19:11, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks for explaining. Better to be generous, I suppose. Joshua Davis 19:39, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Columbus Page
Hey, its all good. I would suggest that perhaps including one of the aforementioned references in the actual text of the article might stem the tide of people, like me, who want a source for that information. I'd do it myself, but i'm not familiar with the process of referencing as seen on the page. Batman2005 01:48, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] morse homology
sorry to tantalize you; the fragment you pointed out was a relic of the edit that resulted in the description of the nice approach to morse-bott homology. i hope was pleasant enough by itself! David Farris 09:12, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Mathematical Physics
Hey Josh, I found you through the Wikiproject Mathematics page and saw that your interested in Mathematical Physics. As such I thought I would let you know that this article is nominated for the Math Collaboration of the week (I nominated it). Even if this article does not make the cut, it needs serious work and I am not qualified to do it as of yet. If you get the time please take a look at it; if not, I understand, and thanks for your time--Cronholm144 22:56, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Mathematics CotW
Hello again Josh, I am writing you to let you know that the Mathematics Collaboration of the week(soon to "of the month") is getting an overhaul of sorts and I would encourage you to participate in whatever way you can, i.e. nominate an article, contribute to an article, or sign up to be part of the project. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks--Cronholm144 22:45, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Riemann Sphere
Of course, you're right that all manifolds are closed in themselves. I thought it was worth mentioning, as it wouldn't be clear to all readers that a closed manifold was a different from a closed set - some authors (such as Jost, who I use as a reference) follow the convention that surfaces have no boundary, and call "closed" surfaces compact surfaces. Obviously, I'm not suggesting we change the page to say "compact surface", as wikipedia doesn't use this convention, but I thought we should make it clear to those familiar with the other convention. If you want to change it back though, I have no problem with this.
Incidentally, Pic is just the first three letters of my surname, so no nerd points for me.
All the best, James pic (talk) 16:58, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Thanks
Thanks very much for reverting the vandalism on my userpage. Much appreciated ——Ryan | t • c 19:59, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
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- No problem. Joshua R. Davis (talk) 20:05, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
