Re:Intuitive Guide to Maxwell's Equations
by soVeryTired on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @01:13PM
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I nearly based my Master's dissertation on a topic I discovered on a wikipedia math page when I was looking for something to cover. Turns out that subsection was maintained by the 'inventor' of topic and essentially served as a vanity page. The topic itself had no recognition in the community and if I had forged ahead on it, I would have failed my dissertation pretty hard.
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Re:Intuitive Guide to Maxwell's Equations
by QuesnayJr on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @02:51PM
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If this is a math topic, you should bring it to the attention of the WikiProject Mathematics talk page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Mat.... They might do something about it.
Re:Intuitive Guide to Maxwell's Equations
by soVeryTired on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @04:42PM
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Oh, I got rid of it years ago. Thanks though. Eventually a big-name mathematician (who some years later won a Fields medal) waded into the discussion and sided with me. I used my real name in that discussion so I won't give more detail than that :)