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Date: Sunday, July 21, 2024
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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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This user has been on Wikipedia for 14 years and 6 days.
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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):

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Fundamental physics

including:

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Applied mathematics

including:

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Pure mathematics

to an extent, including:

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History

The history of mathematics and history of physics make interesting and worthwhile reading too (filtering through the biases).

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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:

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Mathematics:

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Applications:

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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.

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.

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Userspace

Stuff I created:

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In WP

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Outside of WP

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Help space

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Mainspace

Useful codes for symbols and colours:

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Wikispace

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Manuals of style and guidelines
Other pointers

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Wikiprojects

Not a member of anything, first two are regularly visited, remainder are just potentially useful links:

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Formatting
Typography
Mathematics
Links
Boxes
Images
Colours and effects
LaTeX symbols
Other
Time
Users
Wikiprojects

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Editing
Citations
Navigation and help
Article merge
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Disambiguation pages
Manuals of style

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Special space and beyond

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Special pages

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Lists and databases on Toolserver

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External sites

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Academic sources

Journals
Open-source sites

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