Hi, this is Cocteau. I hope this message finds you well.
Here, Cocteaupedia is a website where I store my thoughts and notes on Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. I like to imagine that the mind of an individual human is a little universe. Formulating my learning traces is my way of constructing this universe, and part of my ultimate goal is to understand the grand universe through the reflections of my little universe. What a cute thing!
Before Cocteaupedia was created, I was mostly building this universe on papers. However, due to my perfectionism I found that for me, it can be very hard to keep the note been taking, without starting to rubbishing them. As a result I frequently end my old plan and restart a new plan, and gradually I felt that this was neither meaningful nor eco-friendly (in terms of the amount of paper I have wasted).
Creating digital notes largely solves this issue, and a website is the optimal choice: it can be accessed at any spacetime, and is readily available to be shared and discussed. This is the story of why I created Cocteaupedia.
On this platform, every post is related to a specific question I’ve asked while learning maths and physics. For instance, the ideal of a post can be initiated when I was wondering the origin of Schrödinger’s equation, or when I tried to think about how to calculate the residue of 1/ez+1 . I will try to organize them into topics and subtopics, displayed as Categories. For each post, important concepts that aren’t explained will be highlighted in bold. Only lengthy formulas will be written in LaTeX and displaced as pictures. This is due to display issues, which force me to write short, in-text mathematical relations or definitions – which are less necessary to be displayed as formulas – in regular text. Italic and bolded text will be used for emphasis.
There are, for now, no further instructions necessary to ensure smooth reading of the posts.
Thank you for reading this, I hope Cocteaupedia can be a good piece of work for you.
Cocteau
Created 20 May 2023
Modified 29 May 2023
[Homepage picture: Wikipedia-String Theory]