User:Lindsay N. Childs

Hi, I'm Lindsay N. Childs. During the past couple of months I've been working on trying to contribute a couple of articles about areas of mathematics I know relatively well. Since becoming an emeritus professor at the University at Albany (NY) a decade ago I've authored ten published research papers and one textbook on mathematics, and coauthored an American Mathematical Society monograph that was published last November.

I've noticed that my area of mathematical research barely exists on Wikipedia, so I thought I would try to fill that void with a few articles. But it's been frustrating! I've written mathematics in Latex for maybe 25 years, but trying to write mathematics in the "sandbox" is painful. Today I worked on "Skew left braces", which explains how skew left braces yield solutions of the Yang-Baxter equation, and the sandbox seemed to compile or reject formulas randomly, despite my efforts to clean up any possible typos and other mistakes. It would be so much easier for me and for almost every other published researcher in mathematics to write article in Latex, which has been the standard for decades now for writing up research and for every other kind of writing involving mathematics (lecture notes, homework assignments, exams, etc.). But I don't know if that is possible with Wikipedia. I'd appreciate some feedback on that question. My email is lchilds@albany.edu. Thanks.