User talk:Richard Pinch
Welcome!
Welcome to the Citizendium! We hope you will contribute boldly and well. Here are pointers for a quick start. You'll probably want to know how to get started as an author. Just look at CZ:Getting Started for other helpful "startup" links, and CZ:Home for the top menu of community pages. Be sure to stay abreast of events via the Citizendium-L (broadcast) mailing list (do join!) and the blog. Please also join the workgroup mailing list(s) that concern your particular interests. You can test out editing in the sandbox if you'd like. If you need help to get going, the forums is one option. That's also where we discuss policy and proposals. You can ask any constable for help, too. Me, for instance! Just put a note on their "talk" page. Again, welcome and have fun! D. Matt Innis 17:47, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
Some ideas for contributions
Hi Richard, welcome aboard CZ. Matt has already given you some hints as to how things work here in general, and I wish to add some more practical hints on what possibilities you have to contribute. For a start, I just took some of the keywords from the information you supplied upon registration, and display below the current state of related CZ articles (for icon documentation, see Template:Rpl/Doc):
Mathematics: The study of quantities, structures, their relations, and changes thereof. [e]- Number theory: The study of integers and relations between them. [e]
- RSA: A widely used public key encryption algorithm whose strength depends on the difficulty of integer factorisation. [e]
Combinatorics: Branch of mathematics concerning itself, at the elementary level, with counting things. [e]- Arithmetics: Add brief definition or description
- Elliptic curve: An algebraic curve of genus one with a group structure; a one-dimensional abelian variety. [e]
- Communication theory: Add brief definition or description
- Oxford: A city in Oxfordshire, UK, known as the location of Oxford University. [e]
- Cambridge: Eastern England city; home to the University of Cambridge. [e]
- Erdős number: Named for the Hungarian-American mathematician Paul Erdős and are an application of graph theory, a field in which he published extensively. [e]
- Paul Erdős: Add brief definition or description
In order to find articles dealing with similar topics, it's also worth looking at the Related Article subpages of such an article.
Finally, in case you are involved in homework assignments, please consider doing so via Eduzendium articles.
Looking forward to fruitful collaborative editing, Daniel Mietchen 10:52, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
- I have started pages on RSA, Alan Turing and various related things but since I'm an amateur cryptographer rather than a professional mathematician, you could almost certainly improve them. Sandy Harris 04:01, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for those. Initially, I'm planning to look at primality tests, pseudoprimes; sieve methods; Diophantine equations; elliptic curves. Richard Pinch 06:26, 26 October 2008 (UTC)