User talk:Palaeovia
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[edit] Wikipedia:Contents
The Encyclopedia Britannica is not one of "Wikipedia's other broad categorical indices", so I have removed your edit to Wikipedia:Contents. Thanks, Gwernol 15:09, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Proof sketch of Godel's theorem
I noticed you have been cleaning up that article, and I appreciate the help. If you haven't seen it, you may be interested in the editor resources page at the math wikiproject. The math project talk page is watched by several active, knowledgable editors, and it can be a useful resource. If you have any questions about WP or run into problems, feel free to contact me. CMummert · talk 12:07, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] shamanism
what was the point of adding question marks?Charred Feathers 05:48, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Nonfree images
I noticed that you have a nonfree image of calligraphy on User:Palaeovia/Academia and User:Palaeovia/Memorandum. The nonfree content policy disallows nonfree images except in the main namespace (WP:NFCC#9). Would you mind commenting out the images, or using a link instead of displaying the image? — Carl (CBM · talk) 19:14, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Academic disciplines
The lists in Development studies have been expanding. I don't know enough about this discipline to judge whether the content is reasonable, but the article seems to be becoming a directory of schools that offer this program. Are there some guidelines that Wiki editors can use for articles about academic disciplines? --Busy Stubber 17:09, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Mathematical Subdisciplines
Thank you for your consideration and open-question about statistics and mathematics.
You reverted my unexplained changes in the mathematical sciences (which I understand from a Wikipedia procedural standpoint).
However, if you examine most of the changes---e.g. using the links to Wikipedia or the MSC2000 index (except for scientific computing)---you will see that I was right.
1. Game theory is MSC2000 91 like mathematical economics, and graph theory is a subcategory of combinatorics (MSC2000 08, I think). UPDATE: Maybe I erroneously failed to move game theory and mathematical economics next to optimization theory??Kiefer.Wolfowitz (talk) 22:54, 27 May 2009 (UTC)My thanks for your correcting my un-intended deletion!!Kiefer.Wolfowitz (talk) 22:54, 27 May 2009 (UTC) 2. "Quality control" sounds like Shewhart (or my grandmother in the 1940s at Republic Steel), while "Quality" is emphasized by Deming and Taguchi. 3. Scientific computing is a substantive field encompassing (and also a better marketing strategy for) numerical analysis.
However, these problems are not of great personal concern to me.
Listing "statistics" as a subdiscipline of "applied mathematics" was the real problem, and I am glad that there has not been a Dred-Scott (!) decision to refetter statistics!
Again, I thank you for your moderation and leadership. Kiefer.Wolfowitz (talk) 22:39, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
- Thank you for the thoughtful contribution to the issue of whether Statistics is independent of Mathematics. I will wait to hear from others for a few days before airing my views.
- Mathematics is a "big tent"; it is inclusive. As is clear from MCS2000, it accommodates Applied Mathematics of many types, from Chaos Theory to Game Theory, including Statistics. The argument for the distinct ontological status of Logic from Mathematics is far stronger (Logic is Metamathematics, or the foundation of Mathematics) than that for the status of Statistics. Statistics appears to me obviously "Applied Mathematics". I am not convinced of the ontological uniqueness of Statistics. I will elaborate further in the article's Talk page.
- Quality does not link to any Wikipedia article on a statistical topic. Is it even a subfield of Statistics? Should Quality or Quality control be listed? We are talking about Academic Disciplines.
- There is no single correct way to classify academic disciplines, or Mathematical sub-disciplines. Listing Graph Theory as a subfield of Combinatorics, and Numerical Analysis as a subfield of Scientific Computing, are agreeable to me. Moving Game Theory, and adding Mathematical Economics is certainly uncontroversial.
- List of academic disciplines cannot serve as a comprehensive listing of all subfields of Mathematics, or of Statistics. (Lists of mathematics topics, Lists of statistics topics are the lists for that purpose.) It will have served its purpose well to have shown the broad structure, features and range of human knowledge. --Palaeoviatalk 01:10, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Recast of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy biography
I'm looking for advice on how to proceed on the Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy article. You've shown some interest in the past. The article has become less of a encyclopedia-style biography and more of a series of book reports. I encourage you to review my proposal on how to proceed and leave your suggestions.HopsonRoad 12:07, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Isaac Newton OS death date
It is not vandalism. Please see Talk:Isaac_Newton#Old_Style_date_of_death. Since in Old Style a year number increased on March 25, March 20 was still 1726. --Mgar (talk) 20:01, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] AfD nomination of List of sciences ending in -logy
List of sciences ending in -logy was nominated for deletion by Pharmboy. I just wanted to tell you since you did some work on this article. See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of sciences ending in -logy. Cheers --ἀνυπόδητος (talk) 19:07, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
