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Georg Cantor edit

  • This article has an A-rating in WikiProject Biography,WikiProject Mathematics, WikiProject Germany and WikiProject Philosophy. It has been collaborated on by several mathematicians and other editors. It is well-developed and has a boxful of references (plus more stored away in case of challenges). We hope to send it along to WP:FAC in the near future. Ling.Nut 18:20, 21 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

From SandyGeorgia edit

Beautiful, a few minor WP:MOS things:

  • Why is there a mention of sources in External links? It left me uncertain if that meant that site was used to source the article, in which case it shouldn't be in External links.
  • Removed message from over a year ago; when nothing was cited. No longer current/valid. Ling.Nut 12:14, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • There's an ISBN finder in the userbox on my userpage that can be used to fill in some of the missing ISBNs in References.
  • I fixed WP:DASH throughout; confusion between hyphens (-), emdashes (—) and endashes (–). Hyphens join words, endash separates page and date ranges, and unspaced emdashes are for punctuation (spaced emdashes aren't used on wiki).
  • WP:MOS, PhD not Ph.D.
  • See also should be pruned (see WP:GTL). Ideally, relevant links are incorporated into the text and not repeated in See also. See also should be minimized. Anything already in the text need not be repeated in See also.

I'll read it next. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 01:58, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • This sentence is awkward: After his father's death in 1863, leaving a substantial inheritance, Cantor shifted his studies to the University of Berlin, attending lectures by Karl Weierstrass, Ernst Kummer, and Kronecker, and befriending his fellow student Hermann Schwarz.
  • Fixed, or at least significantly improved, according to my best judgment at the moment. Ling.Nut 03:47, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • ... but Cantor very much desired a chair at a more prestigious university, in particular at Berlin, then the leading German university. (then ?)
  • Overlinking, for example Kronecker, link only the first occurrence of relevant terms.
  • Fixed, or at least significantly improved, according to my best judgment at the moment. Ling.Nut 03:47, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Every one of the 52 letters Cantor wrote to ... check WP:MOSNUM on 52.
  • Very strange to see his theorem as a mere parenthetical in the article, find a way to recast the sentence ?? He then proved that the power set of an infinite set A has a size greater than the size of A (this fact is now known as Cantor's theorem).
  • Cantor's first 10 papers were ... check WP:MOSNUM on 10 vs. ten
  • Not sure why Romantic is capped? ... and Cantor's madness as Romantic despair over his failure to win acceptance for his mathematics.

A very nice example of how math can be cited in an article. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 02:49, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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