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Doctoral students of Richard M. Karp

Why did you remove the link to Karp's list of graduate students at the Mathematics Genealogy Project? Karp's wiki page now lists just four of his students. Are these ones special somehow? Quantling (talk) 20:17, 16 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, they're special because they are notable (and have Wikipedia pages of their own). For instance, Andrey Kolmogorov has 79 students. Only a few are listed on his page. All the listed ones have their own articles. In general, the doctoral students entry is for "Names of any notable doctoral students advised by the scientist." (Template:Infobox_scientist) --Robin (talk) 21:36, 16 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Might we add Dan Gusfield, Ron Shamir, and Abhijit Sahay, even though they have no Wikipedia pages? They are notable doctoral students advised by the scientist. Can we add also add a link like this: Full List Quantling (talk) 17:56, 17 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The full list is probably not useful, since the idea is to list notable students. The references already have a link to his MathGenealogy page, which contains the full list. Usually links to uncreated pages aren't added in infoboxes; the pages are created first and then linked to. If you do add them, someone might revert your edit or question notability. --Robin (talk) 19:45, 17 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

PPAD

My reasoning was that the closest area of mathematics to complexity theory is computability theory, and computability theory articles are all classified under mathematical logic (or should be). Mathematicians don't usually consider computability to be part of "discrete mathematics". The American mathematical society subject classification puts complexity theory under two primary classifications: 03 (mathematical logic) and 68 (computer science). [1] — Carl (CBM · talk) 15:51, 22 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Basic concepts of quantum mechanics (again!)

It doesn't look like this discussion is going any further! Perhaps it's time to try something else. Would you object if I started by proposing a merger between the basic concepts article and the intro article? (This shouldn't stop you using text from the basic concepts article to improve the timeline / history articles if you still want to do this.) Djr32 (talk) 21:14, 30 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, that's fine. There should only be one intro. I'm not sure how you will appease the people who want math in the intro and those who don't. --Robin (talk) 21:17, 30 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, that was quick! Hopefully we can reach a sensible compromise - but there's a reason I only said I'd propose the merger... Djr32 (talk) 21:25, 30 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

collaboration?

Improving the article extremal graph theory sounds good to me. I'll start working on it a bit. Best, ExtremalGraphTheory (talk) 19:24, 28 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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 ::Wow, that was quick!  Hopefully we can reach a sensible compromise - but there's a reason I only said I'd propose the merger...  [[User:Djr32|Djr32]] ([[User talk:Djr32|talk]]) 21:25, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
+== collaboration? ==
+Improving the article [[extremal graph theory]] sounds good to me. I'll start working on it a bit. Best, [[User:ExtremalGraphTheory|ExtremalGraphTheory]] ([[User talk:ExtremalGraphTheory|talk]]) 19:24, 28 December 2009 (UTC)