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by ReleaseCandidat 1681 days ago
I mainly use it as an english dictionary of math terminology.

Although for the basics of differential geometry like the Weingarten equations and the Dupin indicatrix WA is lacking - as is Wikipedia except for the articles in the german Wikipedia. And I haven't found a way to get to the 'Weingarten equations' searching for 'Weingarten', you only find him by the full name 'Julius Weingarten'. :(

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weingartenabbildung https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=weingarten+equations https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indikatrix https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=dupin+indikatrix

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If only there was some way to contribute to the english wiki (article or search) when you are lucky enough to understand the (better) german one...

:-)

That's a bit recursive. I'd have needed english translations of the german articles to get to know the english math terms to be able to write about them in english :)
Maybe the German wiki pages on the specific math terms are already translated to English. If not maybe google can help.

Not saying it's easy.