User:Maschen
Undergraduate in theoretical physics and applied mathematics, 4th year.
This account is not named after the place Maschen in Germany, Harburg: it was coincidence to combine "Machine" into a "name-like" term.
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Background
Generally, I like logic, symmetry, duality, and self-similarity underlying fundamental principles of any form of knowledge, although also like randomness, chaos, irregularity and non-linearity also, because nature isn't "perfect" and regular.
Primary academic interests are in general formalisms and/or fundamentals, mainly in (with much exposure to the literature, but no solid expertise):
- Fundamental physics
including:
- analytical mechanics, statistical mechanics
- quantum mechanics, quantum statistical mechanics
- special relativity
- classical field theory, quantum field theory, gauge theory, general relativity
- relativistic quantum mechanics, relativistic quantum field theory
including:
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to an extent, including:
- applying set theory and group theory
- vector calculus, complex analysis, several complex variables
- exterior algebra, differential forms, differential geometry
- Clifford algebra, geometric algebra, spacetime algebra
- History
The history of mathematics and history of physics make interesting and worthwhile reading too (filtering through the biases).
The really interesting subjects occur when ordinary conceptions, say of space and time, seem counter-intuitive, and how generalizations or reformulations can be made, including:
- Mathematics:
- non-Euclidean geometry
- fractal geometry, fractal spacetime
- fractional calculus, fractional differential forms
- Applications:
There are a surprising number of applications of taking nth-order derivatives of functions where n is a real number and not just a natural number, and most real objects have fractal dimensions that can be transcendental numbers and not just natural numbers. Compare these to how dull things like real analysis and Euclidean geometry are.
Links
Mainly for my own reference to have everything needed in one place. If you're new to WP, hopefully at least some of the following will be useful.
Userspace
Stuff I created:
- In WP
- Outside of WP
Help space
- Help:Displaying a formula
- Help:List
- Help:Columns
- Help:Table
- Help:Diff
- Help:Redirect
- Help:Template
- Help:HTML in wikitext
- Help:Category
Mainspace
Useful codes for symbols and colours:
- Bracket
- Integral symbol
- Blackboard bold
- List of colours
- List of mathematical symbols
- Comparison of TeX editors
- Mathematics Subject Classification (for not making this mistake again...)
Wikispace
- Manuals of style and guidelines
- MOS:DASH
- WP:MOSPHYS (work in progress, not policy)
- WP:MOSMATH
- WP:MOSCHEM
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers
- Other pointers
- Wikipedia:Mathematical symbols
- Wikipedia:Summary style
- Wikipedia:Graphic Lab
- Wikipedia:Images
- Wikipedia:«math»
- Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion
- Wikipedia:Files for deletion
- Wikipedia:Edit summary legend
- Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia
- Wikipedia:Copyrights
- Wikiprojects
Not a member of anything, first two are regularly visited, remainder are just potentially useful links:
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics (talk)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics/Current activity
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics (talk)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject_Mathematics/Current_activity
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Chemistry (talk)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Measurement (talk)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Science (talk)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography (talk)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation (talk)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists (talk)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Outlines (talk)
Template space
- Formatting
- Typography
- Mathematics
- template:math, template:mvar, template:bigmath, template:tmath
- template:int, template:intorient
- template:NumBlk, template:EquationNote
- Links
- Boxes
- template:Box-header
- template:Ahnentafel4
- template:hidden
- template:Organization infoboxes
- template:Infobox scientist
- Images
- Colours and effects
- LaTeX symbols
- Other
- Time
- template:Currentdate
- template:Currentmonthname
- template:Currentday
- template:Currentyear
- template:Currenttime
- Users
- Wikiprojects
- template:WikiProjectBannerShell
- template:Maths rating
- template:WikiProject Physics
- template:WikiProject Chemistry
- template:WikiProject Science
- template:WikiProject History of Science
- template:WikiProject Biography
- template:WikiProject Disambiguation
- template:translated page
- Editing
- Citations
- template:citation
- template:cite book
- template:cite webpage
- template:cite journal
- template:cite article
- template:harv
- template:harvs
- [1] template:springer
- template:MathSciNet
- template:MathWorld
- [2] template:MathGenealogy
- [3] template:MacTutor Biography
- template:OEIS
- Navigation and help
- template:navbox
- template:sidebar
- template:Help navigation
- template:Quicktemplates
- template:Wikipedia copyright
- template:Wiki markup
- Article merge
- Article notes
- template:for
- template:redirect
- template:see also
- template:hatnote
- template:distinguish
- Template:Inline tags
- template:underconstruction
- template:db-redirtypo
- template:db-move
- Disambiguation pages
- Manuals of style
- template:Writing guides
- template:Style wide
- template:Wikipedia template messages
- Template:Wikipedia policies and guidelines
Special space and beyond
- Lists and databases on Toolserver
External sites
Academic sources
- Journals
- Open-source sites
- arXiv
- Google books, Google scholar
- scribd
- Zentralblatt MATH - ZBMATH Online Database
- Internet Archive
- Göttinger Digitalisierungszentrums
- The Electronic Library of Mathematics (ELibM)