User:Piloter

I work in the city of London, and I have an electrical engineering background. There exist two main passions in my life: Italy and Mathematics. I can write and speak Italian (or at least I think I can (-: ).

My passions combine in analyzing and studying the works and biographies of Italian mathematicians. I started with those whose work I use daily in my activity. I have both editions of the book by Damiano Brigo and Fabio Mercurio on my desk and several of their papers, and use this stuff all the time. I have created the pages on these two italian mathematicians and also investigated their history, advisors, colleagues and past activities. If anyone is interested in publishing a book with their bios, let me know (-:

Seriously, I am also planning to look into other mathematicians from present and past, giving a preference to outsiders or poorly recognized mat(h)es, and to write more about mathematical finance and signal processing.

When I joined I noticed there was no page on Bruno Dupire, or more precisely that the page had been deleted for supposed lack of notability. I found that to be quite inappropriate. I wrote a new one and luckily it is still standing.

Other passions I cultivate are classical music, especially piano, golf and polo, and sailing.

I contribute mostly to en.wikipedia but to improve my Italian I am also trying it.wikipedia, with some help from an italian friend I first met at a mathematical finance course. Unfortunately, I am not visiting wikipedia regularly due to time constraints but alternate intense periods with quiet ones.

The following are helpful points I copied from the user page of Michael Hardy

All the Best

Piloter (talk) 22:20, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Style tip

 * "In ABCology, an X is a blah blah blah."

is superior to


 * "X is a term used by ABCologists to describe a blah blah blah."

Here's another example (fictitious---a composite of several actual instances).

Keep links simple when possible
Writing hyphenated, logical, cats, evolutionary, rabbinical, Egyptian, dogmatic, apocryphal, fur trader, antagonistic, algebraic, legendary etc., makes the whole word, not just the part in the brackets, appear as a clickable link, which links to the article whose title is in the brackets. The more complicated form can be used for things like philosophies.

Also, one does not need underscores as in prime_number_theorem or prime number theorem.

a technical problem with templates
templates within templates

a useful TeXnicality

 * $$ Y \ \stackrel{\mathrm{def}}{=}\ 1(y^* >0). $$

useful links

 * Graphic Lab/Images to improve
 * http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Displaying_a_formula
 * Categories, lists, and series boxes

Wikipedia Mathematics Project

 * WikiProject Mathematics • Talk
 * WikiProject Mathematics/Current activity
 * Pages needing attention/Mathematics/Lists
 * WikiProject Mathematics/Graphics, Requested pictures

Statistics Project

 * WikiProject Statistics • Talk

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Find out from this site.

Shortest path from one article to another

 * http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/~mu/wiki