User:Piloter

I work in the city of London, and I have an electrical engineering background. There exist two main passions in my life: Italy and Mathematics. I can write and speak Italian (or at least I think I can (-: ).

My passions combine in analyzing and studying the works and biographies of Italian mathematicians. I started with those whose work I use daily in my activity. I have both editions of the book by Damiano Brigo and Fabio Mercurio on my desk and several of their papers, and use this stuff all the time. I have created the pages on these two italian mathematicians and also investigated their history, advisors, colleagues and past activities. If anyone is interested in publishing a book with their bios, let me know (-:

Seriously, I am also planning to look into other mathematicians from present and past, giving a preference to outsiders or poorly recognized mat(h)es, and to write more about mathematical finance and signal processing.

When I joined I noticed there was no page on Bruno Dupire, or more precisely that the page had been deleted for supposed lack of notability. I found that to be quite inappropriate. I wrote a new one and luckily it is still standing.

Other passions I cultivate are classical music, especially piano, golf and polo, and sailing.

I contribute mostly to en.wikipedia but to improve my Italian I am also trying it.wikipedia, with some help from an italian friend I first met at a mathematical finance course. Unfortunately, I am not visiting wikipedia regularly due to time constraints but alternate intense periods with quiet ones.

The following are helpful points I copied from the user page of Michael Hardy

All the Best

Piloter (talk) 22:20, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Some normative comments on editing Wikipedia articles[edit]

Style tip[edit]

"In ABCology, an X is a blah blah blah."

is superior to

"X is a term used by ABCologists to describe a blah blah blah."

Here's another example (fictitious---a composite of several actual instances).

Keep links simple when possible[edit]

Writing [[hyphen]]ated, [[logic]]al, [[cat]]s, [[evolution]]ary, [[rabbi]]nical, [[Egypt]]ian, [[dogma]]tic, [[apocrypha]]l, [[fur trade]]r, [[antagonist]]ic, [[algebra]]ic, [[legend]]ary etc., makes the whole word, not just the part in the brackets, appear as a clickable link, which links to the article whose title is in the brackets. The more complicated form can be used for things like [[philosophy|philosophies]].

Also, one does not need underscores as in [[prime_number_theorem]] or [[prime_number_theorem|prime number theorem]].