User talk:Charles Matthews/Plaudits

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Contents 1 barnstar 2 Barnstar 3 Gratitude 4 Awards 5 Thank you 5.1 Have a rest 6 From a fan 7 Another fan 8 Cowboy Hat 9 Breeches role 10 thanks for Nemmers Prize in Mathematics 11 Essential spectrum 12 Belloc 13 Nice to work with you 14 Historic/Evolutionary perspective 15 War poets 16 Scientific formalism 16.1 Re: Semantics and interpretation 17 Hi Charles 18 data page boiling points of the elements 19 G. H. Hardy 20 Another fan 21 Barnstar! 22 Jellybeans 23 Award for Spinors 24 To make your day 25 The Original Barnstar 26 Barnstar for you amazing work 27 Thank you

[edit] barnstar

This is for your astounding job on the Mathematics area. Pfortuny 19:23, 16 Apr 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

A barnstar for outstanding math-related contributions, in terms of both quantity and quality. Enjoy! - Fredrik | talk 21:08, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks - year and a half since the last one ... Charles Matthews 21:11, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Gratitude

Can't have enough of it, if you ask me! Just stopping by to thank you for your ArbCom work. I have great respect for the time you take to sort out troubles, and hope you feel satisfied and appreciated in your task there. I for one am grateful for the time you spend on this job. Thanks again! Snoutwood (talk) 21:09, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Awards

This Mathematical Barnstar is for creating the article on Gabriel Cramer. It's long overdue. Dragix 10:34, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

User:Pedia-I/SmileyAward5Thank you for all your hard work in the terrible mess. This is the closest thing I could find to a plate of cookies.NinaEliza 06:30, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] From a fan

Charles, the extensive work you have done and attitude you carry is most commendable, most specifically in the mathematics articles, and others. Keep up the good work you do! Dysprosia 10:10, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Oh - well - if you put it that way, all I can say is that in cyberspace no one can see you blush!

Charles Matthews 10:12, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Another fan

Just wanted to tell you that I really appreciate your math edits. It's good to know someone's reading these articles, and you usually seem to catch most issues while doing so :) Prumpf 18:54, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Well, thanks. I've been away quite a lot this summer - just this week I have been engaged in WP, but perhaps I should return to getting a life.

Charles Matthews 18:58, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Cowboy Hat

I guess it did exist! Figures, too - the one place that I didn't look and that search didn't reveal to me.

Thank you for the correction.

ClockworkTroll 13:47, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Breeches role

Thanks for your cool edit at Breeches role! That's the first time anybody's added anything to my text.--[[User:Bishonen|Bishonen (talk)]] 11:37, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Trousers seem to be an issue; I noticed that the article is a bit lacking in convincing history. Just an aside - hi and hello. Charles Matthews 11:44, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] thanks for Nemmers Prize in Mathematics

Thanks for having written the Nemmers Prize in Mathematics! BACbKA 21:06, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Essential spectrum

Nice rewriting! This is indeed more approachable now, thanks! Oleg Alexandrov 18:02, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Belloc

Excellent changes, Charles. I'm impressed! You seem to be something of a polymath, whereas I'm but a Polycarp

The article is shaping up quite well. I think it will require a bit more about his politics; and also something more specific about the genesis of distributism around 1910. That should round out the picture. Charles Matthews 10:56, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Hi Charles. I noticed your work on this article and just wondered if you knew this site? It is an online archive of The New Age, containing a lot of writings by and about Belloc, especially on his politics. Filiocht 14:51, Jan 20, 2005 (UTC)

Yes, I've come across this, though not particularly in relation to Belloc. Thanks for the reference. Charles Matthews 15:04, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Nice to work with you

Charles, I'm taking an indefinite hiatus from wikipedia. There are a number of reasons, you can read them at User:Revolver. I may return...I don't know. I do know that I feel like although the number of articles and amount of writing is constantly going up here, the quality of writing still has a long ways to go before anyone in the academic community will really take the project seriously. I also will be quite busy in the near future (working full-time in the "real world"; got a conditional hire at NSA, but still have formal interviews and security clearance). Anyway, I just wanted to let you know before leaving that it was really a pleasant experience working with you, and I wish you luck with the wiki and life in general. Revolver 12:48, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Best of luck for the future. It's going to be a 'provisional' piece of work, for a while anyway. Charles Matthews 13:57, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Historic/Evolutionary perspective

I just want to drop you a note to say I am learning a lot from many of the math articles you have written. You have a certain way of putting material into a historic/evolutionary perspective which I find very illuminating and which is sadly missing in most standard math books. Anyway have a pleasant day and please keep adding original material to wikipedia. MathMartin 16:09, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Well, thanks. At the moment I'm a bit obsessed with literature and bibliographical work, but I haven't given up on the mathematics. Charles Matthews 16:12, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] War poets

Thanks for the excellent link to Cairo poets: very interesting. I'm just exploring these writers and was keen to build up their presence here. Dizzley (Peter H) 13:10, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Glad you like it. Some people feel that Terence Tiller is the 'lost man', out of that lot. Charles Matthews 15:29, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Scientific formalism

Good article. Seemed to pop out of nowhere (I just noticed bluing of saving the phenomena). It fits in very well with Interpretation of quantum mechanics.CSTAR 05:38, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Ah - I thought it was still incoherent really. I was going to add something about the Dirac delta function. Also, what do you think about Hilbert's axiomatics of physics; I mean, models which are mathematical with a given 'conventional interpretation'? I find philosophy of science a bit scary, and I probably can't express that aspect in 'professional' language. Charles Matthews 07:36, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Well, the problem is that "interpretation" has not yet the acquired the status that "semantics" has in linguistics. I did hint at something in the interpretation article with the "metaphor" of a correspondence. (I debated whether I should put that in since that view is probably not universally accepted, but as an explanatory device it seemed reasonable).

I liked the Scientific formalism because it puts instrumentalism in a historical context; Physicists are generally inconsistent on this point: they consider themselves realists yet usually fall back on instrumentalism.CSTAR 14:43, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Semantics and interpretation

Indeed this seems to be one ingredient in van Frassen's view of intepretation.CSTAR 06:30, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Hi Charles

Hi Charles, and thanks for your note. I like those 17th century poets, and was pleased to see that Kynaston had a page.

By the way, looking at your contributions, I need to pass along a compliment. I was visiting my uncle recently, who is professor emeritus of population genetics at a large university here; I mentioned to him that I spent a lot of time writing obscure articles on Wikipedia, to which he responded: "Oh, Wikipedia! I use them all the time! They have really good mathematics articles!" I don't know specifically what he was reading, but I know he is interested in number theory (e.g. we had a long discussion of Goldbach's conjecture).

Be well! Antandrus 15:27, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Well, that's nice to know. Number theory is my doctorate - I kind of shy away from writing too close to the knuckle technically about it, but I don't need a book to get the historical perspective straight. I like 'minor poets' - you never run out, and they tend to have other things in their lives. Poor old Kynaston - the money stopped of course and his academy never managed to make the Brits into rounded intellectual folk. Charles Matthews 15:31, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] data page boiling points of the elements

The page is intended to be part of a set of data pages, see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Elements#references, TODO. "Data page" because its aim is to contain more info than is necessary as opposed to a user-friendly article that may have a similar name. Please move it back. Femto 17:22, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)

The name is not grammatical as it stands, so please reconsider the title(s). Charles Matthews 17:32, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I've made it Boiling points of the elements (data page), which is a more normal style. Charles Matthews 18:22, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Just fine! I appropriately moved the other two pages and fixed their link redirects. ...I did say "I think I'm horrible at making up these titles" on the WikiProject page, didn't I? Femto 19:55, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] G. H. Hardy

Nice job on "militant". Hasdrubal 18:26, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Another fan

Hi Charles. It was when dealing with the missing science topics project that I realized that, besides your very many and excellent contributions, you have also put in a huge amount of work in building up the backbone of the math collection at Wikipedia, by creating lots of redlinks (a couple of thousands at least) and categories. Thanks!

PS I have been a bit sad to see regular posts by annoying characters to your talk page after you got to be on the arbcom. Hope it's not that bad as it appears, and either way, you are doing an important job, even if it may not be much fun. :) Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 00:19, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar!

		The Original Barnstar
		Where can I even begin? Your massive article contributions are simply astounding, and it is a travesty that this is only your second barnstar. Je via sano, Dar-Ape 04:48, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

I do actually have a couple more, but thanks anyway. Charles Matthews 08:57, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jellybeans

Here are some Jelly beans for you. I love jelly beans as they have sugar in them and most people love sugar. But on the other hand just receiving somthing from somone else just makes you happy and also just giving this to you makes me happy. I hope to spread the jelly beans all over Wikipedia, so here, you can have this lot. Please enjoy them. (I like the lime ones.)

Editors need a bit of a sugar high too.

An apple a day keeps -The Doctor- away. Or does it! ^{(talk)(contribs)} 02:20, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Award for Spinors

		The E=mc² Barnstar
		Incredible job in transforming Spinor, one of the more obscure articles about an important subject both in physics and mathematics into a model piece. With admiration for your extraordinary contribution, Arcfrk 10:03, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] To make your day

Jupiter12 02:55, 27 April 2007

[edit] The Original Barnstar

		The Original Barnstar
		I thought I'd give you this barnstar for your impressive I have been noticing edits in numerous articles. Wikidudeman (talk) 05:29, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

(UTC).

[edit] Barnstar for you amazing work

		The Original Barnstar
		This is for being a major asset to the Wikipedia community. Your article work is...amazing, and you have been a help in the dispute resolution process here. Please keep up the great work:) Cheers! SJP 20:05, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

Sometimes when I read an exceptionally well written exposition of Mathematics on wikipedia I check the history to see if you've written it, and your name is there more often than not. The math content on wikipedia is of high quality, and a significant part of it is your work. Many thanks.

-A student —Preceding unsigned comment added by Z amirkhosravi (talk • contribs) 23:29, 7 March 2008 (UTC)