User:JoergenB

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My name is Jörgen Backelin; I am a mathematician by profession; and have some side interests, like evolution theory, language history, and Scandinavian medieval ballads. My home page

My immediate reason for joining the Wikipedia community is that I feel that I might contribute by adding or improving some items in the mathematics section.

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==Ongoing or planned work== (you may add signed suggestions for getting my attention; but I won't promise to do anything about them)


[edit] Things someone probably should do something about; and possibly sometime in the future I might look at

  • Dimension versus Degrees of freedom (physics and chemistry). The latter replaced the former in Euclidean group (elsewhere??), and does not seem to contain any hint of the fact that this is one of the major ways mathematicians define dimension.
  • Relation algebra (suggested by Ramsey2006).
  • Declension (and some other grammar related articles), where sometimes clearer definitions are needed, and often better layperson exemplification.
  • Latin declension et al.: Case order; explaining cases; locative as a separate case or not.
  • Genomics, Human genome: Explain some of the most asked questions on e.g. the genetic background for sex distribution in human. Go back into history, find or make template, (re)insert information on the various sequenced genomes; readers will wish to be able to look them up.
  • Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands. I think all wcich may have wanted an opinion have expressed that in one or another WP; meaning essentially myself, User:Arne List, and User:Quackor; others have not responded. The list of older løgmenn absolutely not is a list of "prime ministers", in any sense. There are reasons to retain one list; although in some respects, the modern "løgmaður" more is a continuation of the "amtsmaður"; with the important distinction that the amtsmenn (like many of the older løgmenn but as distinct from the modern ones) were appointed from Denmark.
    Proposed remedy: Make a true article out of the present redirect page Løgmaður, treating the concept itself, and its historical development, and for the older part comparing with other Scandinavian lagmän ("law speakers"; note that at least one official English translation of a document mentioning them used the Danish lagman as English translation of løgmaður). Move the present article to List of løgmenn or something similar; and modify it slightly (removing the inference that the older ones were prime ministers, and referring to the new article). Make a redirect from the new Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands to Løgmaður. Fix the iw links; the split into one "ssubject article" and one "list" appears elsewhere, too. Finally, check infoboxes et cetera.
  • Category:Ethnologists vs. Category:Folklorists (with all their national subpages, and their sisters). Somewhat confused; fundamentally probably since the European colonialists could not consider study of "other kinds of humans" as on par with study of their own peoples.

[edit] Missing mathematics related articles or links

[edit] At least partially fixed