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- 13:02, 20 November 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Elliptic integrals (Created page with "<ref>[https://cybre.space/@apocheir/107237017773898587 Toot by @apocheir@cybre.space]</ref> Category:Needs filling in")
- 12:54, 20 November 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Separating arguments of a function (Created page with "In English, a comma normally separates components of a bracketed list, such as the arguments of a function. For example, \(f(x,y)\) is the application of a function \(f\) to...")
- 11:46, 20 November 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Series that are neither convergent nor divergent (Created page with "According to Adam Atkinson, in Italy a series that isn't convergent and doesn't tend to \(\pm \infty\) is "indeterminate", not "divergent".")
- 16:10, 7 November 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Symbols with no standard pronunciation (Created page with "== Greek letters == In English, there are multiple widely-accepted ways of pronouncing the names of Greek letters.<ref>[https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/11363/why-...")
- 16:02, 7 November 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Functions with no standard pronunciation (Created page with "There are many mathematical functions with a single widely-agreed written form, but with multiple widely-used spoken forms. == Hyperbolic functions == Common ways of saying...")
- 15:56, 7 November 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Category:Spoken language (Created page with "This category collects things to do with the way mathematics is spoken out loud.")
- 14:26, 15 September 2021 User account Byorgey talk contribs was created
- 13:05, 14 September 2021 Mscroggs talk contribs created page Apply ... to (Created page with "Category:Ambiguities Category:Language The sentence "Apply ... to ..." can be ambiguous. For example, "Apply theorem 3 to theorem 6" could mean "apply the statement o...")
- 05:35, 2 September 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Equation (Created page with "What is, and what isn't, an equation? <ref>https://twitter.com/pwr2dppl/status/1433190144404766721?t=i-tv-gxBN0q-FyoTknfGaA tweet by Piper H</ref>")
- 13:40, 30 August 2021 Benrbray talk contribs created page File:Commutative-diagram two-parallel.png
- 13:40, 30 August 2021 Benrbray talk contribs uploaded File:Commutative-diagram two-parallel.png
- 13:29, 30 August 2021 Benrbray talk contribs created page File:Commutative-diagram equalizer.png
- 13:29, 30 August 2021 Benrbray talk contribs uploaded File:Commutative-diagram equalizer.png
- 13:54, 26 August 2021 Peterrowlett talk contribs created page Talk:Natural numbers (Noting potential further ambiguity)
- 13:42, 26 August 2021 User account Peterrowlett talk contribs was created
- 14:30, 3 August 2021 Mscroggs talk contribs created page Superscript (Created page with "Superscripts are most commonly used to denote powers, eg \(4^3=64\). There are some other uses of superscripts, see eg powers of trigonometric functions. Superscripts ar...")
- 19:22, 29 July 2021 Ompaul talk contribs moved page Proof to Talk:Proof
- 19:22, 29 July 2021 Ompaul talk contribs created page Proof (Proof what is it, the ideas within this are not complete)
- 15:12, 29 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Bang (Redirected page to !) Tag: New redirect
- 14:59, 29 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Easily confused symbols (Created page with "Category:Handwriting Some symbols are hard to distinguish, or are easily confused for each other, particularly when handwritten. ==Handwritten examples== When 1 is writ...")
- 21:02, 26 July 2021 VPantaloni talk contribs created page File:Minimum-VPantaloni-handwriting.png
- 21:02, 26 July 2021 VPantaloni talk contribs uploaded File:Minimum-VPantaloni-handwriting.png
- 20:12, 26 July 2021 Ompaul talk contribs created page Talk:Or (Created page with "Is it fair to say the following? Would you like tea or coffee? Yes Thus being able to say that it is true, but unhelpful.")
- 20:09, 26 July 2021 User account Ompaul talk contribs was created
- 18:26, 26 July 2021 User account VPantaloni talk contribs was created
- 04:22, 22 July 2021 User account Vam103 talk contribs was created
- 09:01, 16 July 2021 User account IJK123 talk contribs was created
- 09:44, 15 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Template:C (Created page with "[[:Category:{{{1}}}|{{{1}}}]]")
- 09:42, 15 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Category:Unspoken conventions (Created page with "This category collects conventions that aren't typically formalised, but are widely followed.")
- 09:36, 15 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs moved page The order of factors matters even when they commute to The order of terms matters even when they commute
- 08:41, 15 July 2021 ColinBeveridge talk contribs created page The order of factors matters even when they commute (The order of factors in a term follows apparently arbitrary conventions.)
- 14:30, 14 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Template:Please add (Created page with "{{Fix|change=Please add {{{1}}}}}")
- 14:29, 14 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Template:Fix (Created page with "<span class="fix {{{classes|}}}" style="white-space:nowrap">{{{change}}}</span>")
- 14:26, 14 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page MediaWiki:Common.css (Created page with "CSS placed here will be applied to all skins: .fix { color: blue; font-style: italic; }")
- 13:48, 13 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Negating a fraction (Created page with "Category:Ambiguities When negating a fraction written on two lines, just putting a minus sign in front is easy to mistake for a long dividing line: \[ - \frac{x^3 + 3x^2...")
- 13:44, 13 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Space is significant (Created page with "Category:Ambiguities Empty space is often significant in mathematical notation, but it's easy to misinterpret, and hard to produce accurately. TeX applies different amou...")
- 13:30, 13 July 2021 Dginev talk contribs created page Whystartatxyz talk:Organisation (some thoughts on organization)
- 09:58, 13 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Whystartatxyz:Organisation (Created page with "==Of pages== At the moment (2021-07-13), there are a few dozen pages, each belonging to one or two out of a handful of categories. I'm keen to identify common themes, but ho...")
- 21:23, 12 July 2021 User account Rynair talk contribs was created
- 17:17, 12 July 2021 Benrbray talk contribs created page Commutative diagrams (basic summary of commutative diagram ambiguities)
- 17:05, 12 July 2021 Benrbray talk contribs created page Probability theory (Created page with "Probability theory makes a number of pragmatic abuses of notation. There are a lot of symbols, such as the magic function \( P \) (sometimes written \(\mathbb{P}\) or \(\math...")
- 16:31, 12 July 2021 Benrbray talk contribs created page Prime symbol in variable names (summarize ambiguities around using prime symbol in variable names)
- 16:21, 12 July 2021 User account Hpecora1 talk contribs was created
- 16:06, 12 July 2021 Benrbray talk contribs created page Category:Variable Names (Created page with "Conventions for assigning symbols or other identifiers to variables.")
- 16:01, 12 July 2021 Benrbray talk contribs created page Circumflex to Distinguish Variable Names (Introduce the upright and inverted circumflex convention, with an example.)
- 15:54, 12 July 2021 Benrbray talk contribs created page File:Hinze2012 adjunctions circumflex.png
- 15:54, 12 July 2021 Benrbray talk contribs uploaded File:Hinze2012 adjunctions circumflex.png
- 15:11, 12 July 2021 User account Benrbray talk contribs was created
- 15:28, 11 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Category:Needs filling in (Created page with "Pages that might have a link or two or a snippet of an idea, but need filling in.")
- 15:22, 11 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Or (Created page with "Category:Ambiguities The word "or", when used in mathematics, usually means the the relation \(A \vee B\), with the following truth table: {| class="wikitable" |+ Captio...")
- 13:45, 11 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Category:Language (Created page with "This category collects problems to do with mathematical language.")
- 13:42, 11 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Category:Handwriting (Created page with "This category collects things that only or mainly come up in handwritten notation.")
- 13:31, 11 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs moved page Talk:Mod Notation to Talk:Modular equivalence
- 13:31, 11 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs moved page Mod Notation to Modular equivalence
- 14:54, 10 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs moved page Lack of brackets in language to Lack of brackets in spoken language
- 14:29, 10 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Symbols that look identical in certain contexts (Created page with "Category:Ambiguities Category:Needs filling in Some pairs of symbols look identical when handwritten, or when rendered in certain fonts. ==Examples== * The Latin le...")
- 14:23, 10 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page File:Three ways of writing x.jpg
- 14:23, 10 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs uploaded File:Three ways of writing x.jpg
- 11:51, 9 July 2021 Dginev talk contribs created page File:F-x-for-brevity.png
- 11:51, 9 July 2021 Dginev talk contribs uploaded File:F-x-for-brevity.png
- 08:32, 8 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Juxtaposition means combine in the obvious way (Created page with "In an expression, putting two things immediately next to each other usually means that they should be combined in some way. It's usually implicit that the combination operatio...")
- 08:22, 8 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Function application without parentheses (Created page with "Category:Ambiguities It's sometimes OK to write a function name followed by its argument, without any parentheses. Because there's There is no function application symb...")
- 20:24, 7 July 2021 John McKenna talk contribs created page Talk:Ways of writing numbers (Created page with "In the Twitter thread: "Have you seen fractional numbers in hex or octal notation?" Literals like 0x1.123abcp-5 are now standard in C and C++. The exponent (following 'p') is...")
- 18:31, 7 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Intervals (Created page with "Category:Local variations Intervals are often written as a pair of numbers between two brackets, with the brackets determining whether the interval is open or closed at e...")
- 14:43, 6 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page ! (Created page with "Category:Ambiguities The ! symbol is used to represent the factorial operation. When a factorial appears inside a sentence, it's possible to misinterpret the ! as an exc...")
- 14:06, 6 July 2021 User account John McKenna talk contribs was created
- 13:50, 6 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Handwritten x (Created page with "Category:Local variations The letter x is often written differently in a mathematical context to prose text, in order to distinguish it from the multiplication symbol, \(...")
- 12:56, 6 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Symbols for names (Created page with "There are many conventions to do with naming things. This page might split into several when it gets big enough. Mathematicians tend to use single Latin letters to name thing...")
- 04:49, 6 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Equality, identity, definition (Created page with "<ref>[https://twitter.com/DavidKButlerUoA/status/1412252548833046541?s=19 Twitter thread]</ref>")
- 09:52, 5 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Set notation (Created page with "When defining a set, something is normally put between curly braces. There are a few different conventions for what can go inside: * All the elements of the set, separated by...")
- 14:27, 3 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Category:Local variations (Created page with "This category collects conventions in notation that are particular to a place or group of people.")
- 18:21, 2 July 2021 RJBoland talk contribs created page File:Modexamples.png
- 18:21, 2 July 2021 RJBoland talk contribs uploaded File:Modexamples.png
- 18:14, 2 July 2021 RJBoland talk contribs created page Talk:Mod Notation (Alternate Mod Notation)
- 17:15, 2 July 2021 RJBoland talk contribs created page Mod Notation (Mod Notation)
- 16:27, 2 July 2021 RJBoland talk contribs created page File:Modmacros.png
- 16:27, 2 July 2021 RJBoland talk contribs uploaded File:Modmacros.png
- 15:38, 2 July 2021 Mscroggs talk contribs created page Factors (Created page with "The factors of 21 are usually 1, 3, 7, and 21, but sometimes factors is used to describe the number 1, 3, 7 (excluding the number itself. The proper factors of 21 might be 1,...")
- 15:34, 2 July 2021 User account RJBoland talk contribs was created
- 15:24, 2 July 2021 Mscroggs talk contribs created page Lack of brackets in language (Created page with "There are problems similar to those related to order of operations misunderstandings causes by the lack of brackets in language. For example, if trying to describe \(3^{2...")
- 15:04, 2 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Quotes (Created page with "<blockquote>Symboles are poor unhandsome (though necessary) scaffolds of demonstration; and ought no more to appear in publique, then the most deformed necessary business whic...")
- 11:47, 2 July 2021 User account SparksMaths talk contribs was created
- 11:11, 2 July 2021 User account Akura talk contribs was created
- 10:25, 2 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Times smaller and bigger (Created page with "Category:Ambiguities Category:Language Does "\(x\) is 5 times smaller than \(y\)" mean \(x = y/5\)? Does "\(x\) is one time smaller than \(y\)" make sense? Does "\(...")
- 10:17, 2 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page There is no function application symbol (Created page with "While \(\circ\) is often used to represent ''composition'' of functions, it doesn't appear that anyone has invented a symbol for ''application'' of functions. Such a symbol c...")
- 10:09, 2 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Combinations (Created page with "Is it \(_nC_r\) or \(^nC_r\)?<ref>[https://twitter.com/christianp/status/335024096947617793 Tweet by Christian Lawson-Perfect]</ref>")
- 10:08, 2 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page What is a fraction (Created page with "<ref>[https://twitter.com/christianp/status/1326847522539769856 Twitter thread by Christian Lawson-Perfect]</ref>")
- 10:06, 2 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Chaining operators and relations (Created page with "Category:Inconsistencies <ref>[https://twitter.com/ZenoRogue/status/798923050842324992 Tweet by ZenoRogue]</ref>")
- 10:00, 2 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Ways of writing numbers (Created page with "<ref>[https://twitter.com/christianp/status/1240294851641516036 Thread started by Christian Lawson-Perfect: " want as many different conventions for writing numbers as you can...")
- 09:45, 2 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Parentheses are overused (Created page with "Category:Conflicting definitions Parentheses are used to represent all sorts of operations and objects, many of which conflict with each other. Greatest common divisor:...")
- 08:56, 2 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Something on the right of a radical (Created page with "Category:Ambiguities Category:Handwriting A square root is often shown with a radical symbol: \( \sqrt{x} \). The top line is drawn as wide as it needs to be to cover...")
- 08:51, 2 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Long variable names (Created page with "Mathematicians normally stick to single-letter variable names. But when they don't, it can be hard to tell if there's a missing multiplication symbol or not. Some people...")
- 08:35, 2 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Category:References (Created page with "This category collects pages that contain references to good places to find material for the wiki.")
- 09:31, 1 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Category:Conflicting definitions (Created page with "This category is for definitions of terms or mathematical objects that don't have a single universally recognised meaning.")
- 23:36, 30 June 2021 Edgartj talk contribs created page Modulus (Created page with "The word '''modulus''' is used in different areas of mathematics with no apparent reason for the name or naming convention connection (that I can tell). For instance, in eleme...")
- 23:26, 30 June 2021 User account Edgartj talk contribs was created
- 19:56, 30 June 2021 Dginev talk contribs created page MathML Intent (offer MathML Intent draft list as a seed for curating/editorializing ambiguity pages)
- 19:45, 30 June 2021 User account Dginev talk contribs was created
- 18:02, 30 June 2021 David Eppstein talk contribs created page Big O notation (New article)
- 17:43, 30 June 2021 User account David Eppstein talk contribs was created