*Edited to include articles that would go under the new categories. This is **PART 1** that encompasses math articles.
Hello everyone,
I’ve made a goal to revamp these two categories now that Latex is running smoothly again (the code that gives you beautiful-looking equations). While browsing through these categories, I noticed a lot of articles were miscategorized, could be better placed in more specific categories, or would benefit from new ones. So here are my suggestions.
Within the category of Mathematics:
Economics:
Take it out of Mathematics and put it in its own category within Subjects. Although economics uses math, so do countless other applications, and it’s a form of social science anyway.
Algebra: create subcategory
*Linear algebra
https://www.wikihow.com/Solve-a-System-of-Two-Linear-Equations
https://www.wikihow.com/Use-Inverse-Matrices-to-Solve-Systems-of-Equations
https://www.wikihow.com/Find-the-Inverse-of-a-Matrix
I suggest this because linear algebra (matrix algebra) is an extremely broad discipline of its own. There are many articles that solve systems of linear equations, matrix operations, etc. that would belong here very well.
There are many, many other types of algebra out there, but linear is probably the most accessible. This may suffer from miscategorization, as the “linear” in linear algebra does not actually refer to linear equations (although the discipline does deal with them), but I believe this to be a minor tradeoff.
(I was considering the category “elementary algebra” as well to encompass algebra learned in middle and high school, but who wants to type out all that just for something most of us already understand under the name “algebra” anyway?)
Calculus: create subcategories
*Differentiation
https://www.wikihow.com/Partially-Differentiate-a-Polynomial-With-the-Chain-Rule
*Integration
https://www.wikihow.com/Integrate-by-Parts-when-One-Function-Is-a-Polynomial
https://www.wikihow.com/Integrate-Lnx
https://www.wikihow.com/Integrate-by-Substitution
These speaks for themselves. These are the main branches of calculus. Other topics, such as limits, differential equations, etc. go in the broader Calculus category.
Addition and Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, Exponents: create broader category
*Arithmetic
Within this category, create subcategories:
*Addition and Subtraction
*Multiplication and Division
*Exponents and Logarithms
I say this because these are all simply arithmetic operations. Exponents does not make any reference to logarithms, its inverse, which I believe to be a mistake (every article that goes under Exponents right now goes under here too). Division is the inverse of multiplication. Modular arithmetic can also be located under this as well.
Geometry: create subcategory
*Vectors
I really don’t like the “coordinate geometry” category. It’s too vague. A lot of the articles in there are miscategorized, and I think a proper categorization in the future would get rid of this altogether, while articles in it would be better placed. Trigonometry and coordinate geometry have many overlaps. I reluctantly recategorized vector articles under here, but creating a separate vectors section would, in my opinion, be more beneficial.
I also suggest shortening “calculating volume and area” to simply “volume and area.”
Create category:
Sequences and Series
https://www.wikihow.com/Find-the-Sum-of-a-Geometric-Sequence
