User:Paul Matthews

I took early retirement from the School of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Nottingham. Since then I've written a textbook for Springer, Differential Equations, Bifurcations and Chaos.

I aim to improve the quality and readability of Wikipedia mathematics pages. Too many of them are written in an unnecessarily complicated, jargon-filled language which makes them hard to understand. There are also numerous basic errors and inconsistencies that arise from multiple authorship.

Principles

• Keep it simple. Explain things as simply as possible with the minimum of technical language, using plain English wherever possible, especially at the top of the article.

• Keep it short and to the point. Don't confuse the issue by discussing related but different concepts.

• Include a simple example.

• A picture is often worth a thousand words in explaining a mathematical concept.