User talk:John

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Comments on recent submission

Your recent entry is appreciated, but needs considerable work before it is in an acceptable format for this site.

Please read the Help:Editing page and in particular the Help:Editing/House Style subpage. In particular:

a) Please use the technique for section headings that is used in all the other pages.

b) Please learn $\LaTeX$, and make sure that all mathematics is written using that form.

c) Please use internal linking to make sure that every mathematical concept that is used to support this proof (e.g. "differentiable", "continuous", "Contraction Principle", and so on) is a directly link to another page on ProofWiki, because that is the fundamental philosophy upon which this website operates.

d) If possible, add the source work from which you got the information for this from (see the structure of the "Sources" section which should exist on many if not most of the pages). If this page is the result of original research, no problem (this is not Wikipedia!) - but it would be nice to know.

It would be appreciated if you were able to take the time to study the existing pages on this site, so you can glean some insight into its structure. It is more than just a repository of proofs - it relies upon the fact that every concept can ultimately be linked back to first principles.

I am also confused about the title of the page: I can find no reference to "Weierstrass's Theorem" in this format. I understand that the function described here is one of (uncountably) many functions that have this property, and I am not sure that this is even the one that is called "the Weierstrass function", or whether it is just one of many functions which are called "Weierstrass functions" - analysis is not a topic of mathematics particularly interested me in that depth.

No doubt this page will continue to be worked on. It is an exceptionally interesting result, and you are completely welcome to continue to add more of the same. If you have no interest in structuring or formatting your pages according to the house rules, then there is no compulsion for you to do so - this entry is in the nature of a polite request. We'd rather have pages added which are not in standard format (we can always tidy them up) than not have contributions at all. As I say, this is not Wikipedia, so it is rare that a page be suggested for deletion (the only cases we've encountered is where either the page is a duplicated of another page, or if it contains complete rubbish or non-mathematical related material such as political propaganda or merely exists as links to another site). --prime mover 00:54, 6 October 2011 (CDT)