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Introduction
I very much welcome comments on any of my contributions (naming, format, style, contents, usefulness etc etc) - post a message at User_talk:Gandalf61.
As for myself ... I am British so I enjoy :
- The outstanding comedy of Monty Python and Fawlty Towers
- The animation of Nick Park
- Singing along with Flanders & Swann
- Eating Marmite on toast
- Drinking dandelion and burdock and warm beer (but not both at the same time)
- ... and playing Diplomacy, Risk and, of course, Mornington Crescent
Articles
Articles that I have started or made a substantial contribution to include :
2003
- Abstract structure - a gap that needed filling because there was a link to it from the mathematics page
- Proof by exhaustion - an important method of mathematical proof that has some controversial applications
- Constructive proof - a complement to the nonconstructive proof article, and completes a link from mathematical proof
- Generating function - replaced a redirect to formal power series with an article on different types of generating functions and their uses
- Farey sequence - just couldn't resist filling out the previous stub
- Ford circle - a natural link from Farey sequence
- Kepler conjecture - a fascinating problem, and an example of proof by exhaustion
- Sphere packing - a requested article that provides context for the Kepler conjecture
- Mathematics as a language - completes a link from mathematical proof
- Flanders and Swann - expanded previous stub
- Polydivisible number - an intriguing backwater in recreational mathematics
- Octave Chanute - American railroad engineer and aviation pioneer
- Coniston Water - scene of Donald Campbell's death in 1967
2004
- Abstraction (mathematics) - link from abstract structure
- Riemann hypothesis - added history section
- St. Elsewhere - new article
- Modular group - expanded existing article
- Fractal - added history section
- Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture - added background section and expanded rest of article
- Julia set - amended general definition of Julia set
- Fatou set - new article, link from Julia set
- Lucas sequence - new article, link from Fibonacci pseudoprime
- Disquisitiones Arithmeticae - new article, link from Carl Friedrich Gauss and number theory
- Vorlesungen über Zahlentheorie - new article, link from number theory
- Mathematical beauty - re-write of existing article
- Mathematics and art - split out from mathematical beauty
- How Long Is the Coast of Britain? Statistical Self-Similarity and Fractional Dimension - new article, link from fractal
- Voronoi diagram - added history section
- Project Excelsior - new article, link from Joseph Kittinger
- Pendine Sands - new article, written because I went there on holiday
- K'nex - expanded previous stub
- Rare Earth hypothesis - made existing article less rhetorical, more NPOV
- Evolving the Alien: The Science of Extraterrestrial Life - new article, book by Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart
- Moving average (finance) - a family of common technical analysis techniques that deserved their own article
- Lyapunov fractal - expanded previous stub
- Apollonian gasket - new article on a very beautiful fractal
- Benoît Mandelbrot - expanded existing article
- Lévy C curve - new article, link from fractal
- Lévy flight - expanded previous stub
- Lévy's constant - new article
- Paul Pierre Lévy - expanded previous stub
- Ruth Lawrence - expanded previous stub
- Notes & Queries - new article celebrating 15th anniversary of column in The Guardian
2005
- Zeckendorf's theorem - new article, referenced in Fibonacci number
- Edouard Zeckendorf - new article
- Mathematics education - re-wrote and expanded previous stub
- A Mathematician's Apology - expanded previous stub
- Hans von Mangoldt - new article
- von Mangoldt function - example of an arithmetic function that is neither multiplicative nor additive
To Do
Create/expand history sections in following articles : hyperbolic geometry, quadratic reciprocity, prime number theorem, Euler-Mascheroni constant ...
Write article on An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
Write articles on world water speed record, Bluebird (car) and Bluebird (boat)
Hilbert's problems - some problems do not have pages - fill in gaps
- In particular, write an article on Hilbert's eighteenth problem