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1. • CommentRowNumber1.
   • CommentAuthorAndriusKulikauskas
   • CommentTimeApr 19th 2016
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   Author: AndriusKulikauskas
   Format: TextI've started a "beauty" page for investigating questions as to what is beautiful in math and how that can illuminate the "big picture". I was glad to find a useful MathOverflow post thanks to Urs Schreiber's blog post.

   I've started a "beauty" page for investigating questions as to what is beautiful in math and how that can illuminate the "big picture". I was glad to find a useful MathOverflow post thanks to Urs Schreiber's blog post.
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   • CommentAuthorTodd_Trimble
   • CommentTimeApr 20th 2016
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   Author: Todd_Trimble
   Format: MarkdownItexThanks for announcing this, but the nLab wiki is not a place where anyone is invited to write a page on whatever they like about mathematics (or physics or philosophy). If you look around a little at recent discussions at the nForum and recent page creations and revisions at the nLab, you will see that ongoing projects here have precise technical content that (in general) is connected with and informed by categorical (and higher categorical) points of view. Other types of contributions may be welcomed, subject to conditions that are hard to spell out, but usually the scientific bar is set high and the contributions should pay heed to formal methods, at a level commensurate with professionalized mathematics. In particular, diffuse musings on "beauty", "discovery", and "the big picture" do not fit and in all likelihood will not be tolerated.

   Thanks for announcing this, but the nLab wiki is not a place where anyone is invited to write a page on whatever they like about mathematics (or physics or philosophy).

   If you look around a little at recent discussions at the nForum and recent page creations and revisions at the nLab, you will see that ongoing projects here have precise technical content that (in general) is connected with and informed by categorical (and higher categorical) points of view. Other types of contributions may be welcomed, subject to conditions that are hard to spell out, but usually the scientific bar is set high and the contributions should pay heed to formal methods, at a level commensurate with professionalized mathematics.

   In particular, diffuse musings on “beauty”, “discovery”, and “the big picture” do not fit and in all likelihood will not be tolerated.

3. • CommentRowNumber3.
   • CommentAuthorDavidRoberts
   • CommentTimeApr 20th 2016
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   Author: DavidRoberts
   Format: MarkdownItexAnd I discourage creating more pages along the lines of the dot points at [[big picture]] ('humanity' etc) I suggest setting up a freely-hosted blog and working there on this material, rather than hitching a ride on the nLab.

   And I discourage creating more pages along the lines of the dot points at big picture (’humanity’ etc) I suggest setting up a freely-hosted blog and working there on this material, rather than hitching a ride on the nLab.