User talk:Sillybanana

Jets
Hello and welcome here. I see you have already met some of the resident jesters mathematicians. It is always a nice surprise to see an expert contributing to the Wikipedia, and I am especially glad to see somebody working on jets, which is one of the subjects in maths that I really should know more about than I do. I took the liberty to made some truly small changes to jet (mathematics) even though you had put the "work in progress" template on top of it. I hope you don't mind.

Please bear with me while I give you some advice which you are free to ignore. Guidance for mathematics articles can be found on Manual of Style (mathematics). In particular, we prefer f(0) = 0 (written in the "source code" as ) above f(0)=0 (written as  ). We also indent all displayed equations (things that you'd write like $$...$$ in TeX) by putting a colon in front of them, as Charles did in this edit.

I also prefer x &ge; k + 1 (written as ) above $$ x \ge k+1 $$ (written as  ), at least in running text (where you would use $...$ in TeX), because the second possibility looks not so nice in many browsers. This seems to be the opinion of the majority, though not everybody.

Furthermore, many like a rather formal style, thinking that it is more fit for an encyclopaedia. So instead of "we define an equivalence relation...", write "let an equivalent relation be defined by ..." I actually disagree with it, but I bow to the majority's opinion (usually).

Finally, and I hate to bring this up again (but perhaps you'll listen to me), please make an account. As you noticed, some people go through recent changes, and some even revert edits to articles which they do not understand if they are made by somebody who does not have an account. Of course, you will usually be able to convince them that your edits are correct, but it will waste some of your time, and also some of our time (humans are very bad at remembering IP addresses). Furthermore, I see no reason not to make an account - it will not destroy your anonimity. But in the end it is your choice.

You asked for links to generalizations of Taylor's theorem. Unfortunately, we even don't have an article on multivariate Taylor series, as far as I know, so your only chance of having some links is to write some articles yourself. :)

Drop by at WikiProject Mathematics if you need to see some mathematicians. Wikipedia can be a bewildering place, with many conventions, some unwritten, so if you have questions please feel free to ask me on User talk:Jitse Niesen. But you seem to be doing great by yourself. I might also be able to help you with some things that you cannot do without an account, like moving pages, and convincing the plebs that you know mathematics better than them ;)

Keep on the good work, and, most importantly, enjoy yourself here. Cheers, Jitse Niesen (talk) 02:51, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

Silly
Sillybanana is now Silly rabbit. Maybe this text should be copied there. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 03:34, 7 November 2005 (UTC)