It seems that describing yourself as a mathematician or calling something you have written for a mathematical paper is becoming increasingly popular.
A math paper is something that has been published in a peer-reviewed math journal. Calling a set of notes that could have been written by a high school student for a math paper is just silly.
Three times in the last four months I have had conversations where someone calling themselves for mathematicians turned out to think that having majored in math and now doing stats, programming, or teaching calculus makes you a mathematician.
Next time I apply for a position I think I'll consider adding "chef" to my CV. After all, I have been cooking regularly for years !
I didn't really give much thought to the name other than "it's a paper/document with math in it." I honestly had no intentions (or even hopes) of trying to deceptive anyone into thinking I was a mathematician.
I can see your point though and will be more explicit about just calling this type of accompanying document as "notes" in the future since that term has less formal meaning associated with it.
A math paper is something that has been published in a peer-reviewed math journal. Calling a set of notes that could have been written by a high school student for a math paper is just silly.
Three times in the last four months I have had conversations where someone calling themselves for mathematicians turned out to think that having majored in math and now doing stats, programming, or teaching calculus makes you a mathematician.
Next time I apply for a position I think I'll consider adding "chef" to my CV. After all, I have been cooking regularly for years !