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The formatting used in this article seems to be completely random. Some headers are topics, some are books, and these is no coherent organization or hierarchy to them. To add to the confusion, sometimes books are not written in italics and sometimes they aren't. Kaldari (talk) 18:32, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
This page says that Kantorovich invented the simplex method. I've always heard that Kantorovich was one of the first to formulate problems as LPs, but the simplex method was due to Dantzig. Neither Kantorovich's page nor the simplex method's page describe Kantorovich as the inventor. Why does this page say so? — Preceding unsigned comment added by AustinBuchanan (talk • contribs) 13:24, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
Dates are given in arbitrary-seeming styles. For example, a few successive entries have:
1.1.1 Baudhayana Sulba Sutra
Baudhayana (8th century BC) …
1.1.2 The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art
The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art from the 10th–2nd century BCE. …
1.1.3 The Sea Island Mathematical Manual
Liu Hui (220-280) …
1.1.4 The Mathematical Classic of Sun Zi
Sunzi (5th century) …
1.1.5 Aryabhata
Aryabhata (499 CE) …
1.1.6 Jigu Suanjing
Jigu Suanjing (626AD) …
1.1.7 Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta
Brahmagupta (628 AD)
Is it fair to call this a mess? Well, anyway, it's a mess. I propose to change all dates to use the common era style:
either:
9999 BCE
or:
9999 CE
or (when unambiguous) just:
9999
– where the 9's indicate digits 0 to 9 with suppression of any leading zeroes. Here are relevant bits of the MoS for date formatting:
and
Following these conventions, we would have instead:
1.1.1 Baudhayana Sulba Sutra
Baudhayana (8th century BCE) …
1.1.2 The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art
The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art from the 10th to 2nd century BCE. …
1.1.3 The Sea Island Mathematical Manual
Liu Hui (220-280 CE) …
1.1.4 The Mathematical Classic of Sun Zi
Sunzi (5th century CE) …
1.1.5 Aryabhata
Aryabhata (499 CE) …
1.1.6 Jigu Suanjing
Jigu Suanjing (626 CE) …
1.1.7 Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta
Brahmagupta (628 CE)
You'll note that I've retained the "CE" for dates in the last two millennia, since we can't assume the general reader would know in which era any of these authors flourished.
Thoughts? yoyo (talk) 23:14, 16 January 2017 (UTC)
Would it be better to convert this list article to tabular form? The only reason I can see for doing so would be to allow the reader to sort by date, author or mathematical discipline (field). But would the first of these need us to use Astronomical year numbering to sort correctly? yoyo (talk) 23:14, 16 January 2017 (UTC)
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Ha. Seriously, this, is some precious stuff. Note to self, precious. Must be kept at any cost. Ema--or (talk) 18:50, 21 February 2021 (UTC) Caveat - maybe not any (maybe an ethical arg. for philo.s), but you get it.
Anybody have problem with the title, pls feel free to change, can't think of any else at the mo. Ema--or (talk) 18:51, 21 February 2021 (UTC) A ha. Vital? shouldn't this be vital for wp mat? Ema--or (talk) 19:02, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
Yitang Zhang work of 2013. — Preceding unsigned comment added by محمد مختاري (talk • contribs) 20:56, 20 January 2023 (UTC)