User talk:Prime.mover

External link suggestion for "Equivalence of Definitions of Ellipse"
Maybe you could consider adding a link on the page Equivalence of Definitions of Ellipse to a "pure" geometric proof that can be found here http://www.lucamoroni.it/ellipse-geometric-proof-equivalent-definitions-foci-directrix/ It's a different approach to showing the equivalence of the definition of the ellipse based on purely plane geometry arguments and I think it could fit well (as a complement) in the Ellipse page of Proof Wiki.


 * Alternatively you may wish to add the proof yourself -- we don't link to proofs, we include them complete.


 * Incidentally, please sign your posts. --prime mover (talk) 15:23, 20 November 2016 (EST)

Length of Arc of Cycloid/Proof 2
I found the main part of the proof here, but I quite believe it's lacking some common sense. We need a much clearer sketch than this. Simcha Waldman (talk) 07:05, 21 November 2016 (EST)

Template Request: R
I will be using graphs generated in R in the future. It would be a good idea to have a template for citation. Something like you did for me with Template:TarskiGeometryCitation. Something like.

However, the citation format recommended is quite verbose, and I think it would add clutter to have the whole thing on every page. So I'm not sure what to do, and would like your input.

The recommended citation for any R code is:

R Core Team (2016). R: A language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. URL https://www.R-project.org/.

And the package I will be using almost exclusively to generate graphs will be ggplot2:

H. Wickham. ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis. Springer-Verlag New York, 2009.

Once I see how you do it, hopefully I can figure out how to add citations for different packages I might use, by mimicking. --GFauxPas (talk) 14:26, 1 December 2016 (EST)


 * Can you give me an example of how you believe it should be used? Like, put a page together that uses it? --prime mover (talk) 16:55, 1 December 2016 (EST)


 * I'm working on it. I'm using it to draw contours for contour integration. --GFauxPas (talk) 19:21, 1 December 2016 (EST)

Is there any service that I can provide to compensate for the fact that I am not a perfect fit?
If there is none, then please give me 24 hours notice before you hide my work from me. Thank you very much.--Amorrow (talk) 18:34, 3 December 2016 (EST)


 * We have an evolved philosophy, and a general ethos which has also been evolving. You may see where gaps exist in our coverage, and you can take note of how we present definitions, results and proofs.


 * Whether there is a place in for more-or-less structured "courses" remains to be seen -- but if we do decide to go in that direction, the presentational quality of the resulting work needs to be, I am sorry to say, somewhat higher.


 * We are not Wikipedia, and we never intended to be a clone of it. Hence our naming conventions and house style rules are sufficiently different as for interlinking between to be impractical and undesirable.


 * If you are in a position to contribute within the guidelines as defined in our house policies, then you are welcome to do so to whatever extent you like. --prime mover (talk) 18:43, 3 December 2016 (EST)


 * This course I have prepared is still raw. I am 55 years old but I am rough in my writing style and at making calculus lightning-fast to learn. I do it because it makes me young again. Please do not cast me out abruptly. Please take a moment or two to deliberate.--Amorrow (talk) 19:24, 3 December 2016 (EST)


 * I am 56 in less than 3 weeks so if we're going to use arbitrary numbers to determine precedence, I outstrip you by a small margin, but that is immaterial. The point is that  is what it is, and it does what it does. I have been hunting around for an analogy, and the best I can do is consider someone who turns up at a come-all-ye music festival wanting to get up on stage and present a lecture on the life of Shostakovich. Not intrinsically a bad thing in itself, an erudite and well-constructed presentation it may well be, but it may well not fit in with the spirit of the event. As such it would need careful consideration of the arguments for and against its inclusion, and may even need to be put to the audience to see whether they would appreciate such a lecture.


 * In this context, as I say, we need (collectively) to consider whether such a departure is in the spirit of what is really about. --prime mover (talk) 01:25, 4 December 2016 (EST)

Is there some database inconsistency
Prime mover: I am confident that my wikisource for is simple and correct and yet it does not render properly everywhere. Feel free to compare it to this offsite copy. Is this typical for this site?--Amorrow (talk) 12:47, 4 December 2016 (EST)


 * You may want to familiarise yourself with the house style rules.


 * For a start, we don't use "math" delimiters here, we use dollar sign delimiters instead. We use MathJax not MediaWiki markup which is frightfully substandard.


 * For another thing, we have an "eqn" template for formatting equations, which generates a table styled consistently, so you don't need to set up all that low-level markup yourself.


 * I have a fair amount on my schedule at the moment so I am not going to be able to spend a lot of time with you on this. My view has always been that a mathematician should to a certain extent be an autodidact. --prime mover (talk) 12:58, 4 December 2016 (EST)