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User:SymplectoJim

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I am a mathematician from the UK. I think that Wikipedia is an excellent tool:

  • for mathematicians it acts as a reference guide for the whole of mathematics, having it to hand effective grants us a light understanding of the whole of mathematics; and
  • for outreach to the general public we have the opportunity to explain what we do.

My pet peeves are

  • people adding their own recent work to Wikipedia;
  • equations without context or explanation; and
  • broken links in citations.

Oh and the treatment of young mathematicians, in particular those with family commitments, both in the UK and round the globe.