User:Paul August

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Projects: Mathematics, List, PlanetMath Exchange, Dante, Classical Greece and Rome, Greece.

Mathematics: Current activity, List of mathematical topics, List of lists of mathematical topics, List of examples in general topology, Glossary of general topology.

How to: Help, Cite sources, Manual of Style, Style and How-to Directory, Wiki Markup, TeX, Utilities, Picture tutorial, Extended image syntax, Tables, Table help.

Policies and guidelines: Policies and guidelines, verifiability, Neutral point of view, No original research, Assume good faith, What Wikipedia is not, Banning policy, Three revert rule.

My: Sandbox, Bibliography, Images, Vacation msg, monobook.js.

Other: Wikipedia:Replies to common objections, Funniest page on Wikipedia, Top editors, Admins by edits, User edits. Diego, [1]

[edit] Personal Info Nom de plume: Paul August Born: Monday July 19th, 2004 (as a Wikipedian) Home: Cambridge, MA, USA Areas of interest: Mathematics, Ancient Greece, Philosophy Personality traits: Perfectionist drone Erdős number: 3 Admin: Since May 31, 2005

[edit] C.V. Holder of Advanced Degrees! Writer of Arcane Tracts and Dissertations! Itinerant Mathematician Extraordinaire! Alleged Categorical Topologist! Semi-literate Speaker of Ancient Computer Languages! Once Considered Talented! Close Associate of Y. T. Rhineghost!

[edit] Articles

Featured: Attalus I

Created: Algebra of sets, Gaius Terentius Varro, Camilla (mythology), Constant function, Demetrius of Pharos, Diocles (mathematician), Eumenes I, Euripus Strait, Go Down, Moses, Heraclea Minoa, Ionian League, Lembus, Maeander River, Multiple edges, Mycale, Opus, Greece, Panionium, Parmenides (dialogue), Philetaerus, Phocaea, Theophilus (Biblical), Tommaso Fazello, Vibo Valentia

Major edits: Absolute value, Complement (set theory), Dinocrates, Elea, Element (mathematics), Epigoni, First Macedonian War, Heraclea (Lucania), Integer, Quadratic equation, Proportionality, Set, Thucydides, Zeno of Elea

Under construction (user subpages): Boolean algebra, Identity function, Eumenes II, Aristonicus, Phocaea (notes), Set theory, Zeno's paradoxes, Mathematics topics list, Mathematician categories, Note templates, Section edit bug test page, DGRBM, Symmetric relation, Test example, Math references. Odysseus merge, Ray (mathematics), Stirling polynomials, JWM, Trojan War, List of major themes in mathematics, AC Chart, Heraclea, Heraclea Pontica, (empty), (empty).

[edit] To Do

Fix: Symmetric relation, Antisymmetric relation, Asymmetric relation, reflexive relation, Irreflexive relation, total relation, Trichotomy, Ordered ring, Ultrametric space, Physical constant (table, and notes), Mathematical constant (table), Theodosius I (succession box see talk), Empty function, Zeno of Elea (turn inline references into footnotes, make external links into References section), Algebra, Magnitude (mathematics) (merge with absolute value), Heraclea (disambiguate), set (image prob see subset), union (set theory) (image prob see subset), intersection (set theory) (image prob see subset), complement (set theory) (image prob see subset), Image:Sym complement.png (replace), Table of mathematical symbols ( ":=" entry, reorganize)

Expand/Rewrite: Image (add and organize properties - see PM), Restriction (mathematics) (and move to Restriction), Trichotomy (split into dab page and "law of trychotomy" page, also see PM article), Identity function (see PlanetMath "Identity map"), Achaeus (general), List of mathematical functions: and create category? First Macedonian War: expand intro (FAC?) Inverse function: add inverse morphism, Arsinoe II of Egypt, Camilla (mythology), Interval (mathematics), Neighbourhood (mathematics), Parmenides, Empedocles, Permutation, Binary relation add informal definition (as subset of X x Y), add definition of Domain and Codomain of a relation First-order predicate logic link to symbolic logic? (figure out why link was removed)

Create: Inverse morphism, Cyme (city)

Look at: Intersection (set theory), Union (set theory), Miletus, Binary operation

Add to: Inclusion map (make clear the relationship to identity function see original version of canonical injection), Table of mathematical symbols (ordered pair: ( , ); intervals: ( , ) [ , ] …; others-see talk), Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics (policy for categories, empty set, relative complement), Binary relation (examples), Binary operation (properties)

Delete: Image:Set-union.png, Image:Set-intersection.png, Image:Set-xor.png

Math FAs?: set, Wallpaper group, Catalan number, Manifold (new version), Proofs of Fermat's little theorem

[edit] Notability

• The pokemon test for notablility see: Wikipedia:Importance.

[edit] A cautionary tale

• Wikipedia:Requests for deletion
• Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Deletion of VFD
• Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Ed Poor/Complaint and response
• Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Ed Poor
• Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Ed Poor/Evidence
• Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Ed Poor/Workshop
• Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Ed Poor/Proposed decision
• Wikipedia talk:Requests for arbitration/Archive 7#Ed Poor case
• Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/FuelWagon v. Ed Poor

[edit] Wiki Creed

• I believe in Andrewa

[edit] Quotes

• Lucan's take on some guy name of Caesar crossing the Rubicon to duke it out with a volcano -- maybe I have that wrong, but you'll need to read the book to find out. — Review of Lucan's Pharsalia found on Amazon.com
• The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary. — James D. Nicoll
• He thought he saw an argument / That proved he was the Pope: / He looked again and found it was / A Bar of Mottled Soap. — Lewis Carroll, Sylvie and Bruno: "The Mad Gardener's Song".
• Crossing a bare common / at twilight in February / under a cloudy sky / without any warning / I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration / I am glad to the brink of fear. — This unattributed "quote", found posted on my office bulletine board, yellowed with age, in my handwriting, which as it happens, exactly describes my own crossing of a park in winter, when I was a romantic youth, is apparently an "improvement" by someone (me?) of a bit of prose from Ralph Waldo Emerson's, Nature: Chapter I.
• IMHO the use of the word "troll" on Wikipedia, should be avoided. It is not well defined and not well understood, hence for the most part, it simply results in being used or understood as a generic insult like "asshole".

[edit] Gallery

The Wikimedal for Janitorial Services (from Topbanana)	Barnstar fromTheo for assiduously fixing every link to Virgil	For all your hard work formatting the List of cultural references in The Divine Comedy, I give you this star. Filiocht (KC)	The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar: For your endless fight against vandalism and having the fastest rollback I have seen I think you deserve this --JAranda
My wife, bless her soul, presented me with my very own barnstar. On a recent trip to Kansas, she found it at an antique store, and bought it for me. Isn't she sweet?	The Bridesmaid Awaits Award for Attalus I waiting to appear on the main page while all his sister FA's get married and make their debut. Geogre

[edit] Verse

For quality Paul may be crazed,
but in conflict is mostly unfazed—
and, too, pretty swell
for one who can't tell
his mug from his chocolate glazed!

Mindspillage

After math is crazy Paul
This is known by us all

He may dream of Ancient Greece
But just numbers give him peace

Neither Caesar, neither Kate
Are too stong to change his fate

But don't worry, have some rum
And enjoy the year to come

Anonymous (New Year's eve 2006)