Talk:Algebra

History

Should we unify the Latin transliteration of the arabic الجبر, currently sometimes al-ğabr but sometimes also al-jabr? (maybe al-ğabr should be preferred) --Ernsts (talk) 20:07, 6 March 2011 (UTC) The Mother Tongue for Mr.Kharazmi was Persian so one has to goback in time and find the equivalent of algebra. In times of Kharazmi Persia was occupied by Arabs. so the books hdtobe written in Arabic or they would be burned. Kharazmi's name shows the city where he was born an that was in Persia (currently part of Uzbekistan) so w must refr to him as Kharazmi and not Al-kharazmi to show him as an Arab. It maybe ok to use the word algebra for s work but his name should be usd correctly. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.178.50.227 (talk) 17:01, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

5th paragraph

I assume that the last two sentences, which now looks like «His algebra was also no longer concerned "with a series of problems to be resolved, but an exposition which starts with primitive terms in which the combinations must give all possible prototypes for equations, which henceforward explicitly constitute the true object of study." He also studied an equation for its own sake and "in a generic manner, insofar as it does not simply emerge in the course of solving a problem, but is specifically called on to define an infinite class of problems."» (the actual ref-link has the number '12'), should look like this: «His algebra was also no longer concerned "with a series of problems to be resolved, but an exposition which starts with primitive terms in which the combinations must give all possible prototypes for equations, which henceforward explicitly constitute the true object of study". He also studied an equation for its own sake and "in a generic manner, insofar as it does not simply emerge in the course of solving a problem, but is specifically called on to define an infinite class of problems".», because the quotations are not entire sentences (Wikipedia:Manual of Style→Punctuation). I think also that for the former quotation, its reference should be inserted, too. If it is the same as of the latter, well, it'll be the same as for the latter all right. JLincoln (talk) 11:30, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

Bt i think it all started in India. All these INDIAN topics were then taken to Arab nations n then it got universally accepted with those arabic names. — Preceding unsigned comment added by S.R.Aniruddha (talk • contribs) 16:57, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

Lagrange

I noticed that the link in the 7th paragraph of History section doesn't point to Joseph-Louis Lagrange, as it should, but to Count Joseph Lagrange. I didn't know how to correct it myself.

93.96.143.64 (talk) 19:26, 3 December 2011 (UTC)

Someone had created a new page at Joseph Lagrange replacing the redirect. I've moved that page elsewhere and have restored the redirect, to fix this and a few other pages that used it, as the mathematician is the most well known claimant on the name.--JohnBlackburne^words_deeds 20:03, 3 December 2011 (UTC)

Rings and Fields

I looked under the Rings and Fields section and found that the editor used "1" as the multiplicative identity and "0" as the additive identity. Should these identities be generalized to include fields besides those of the complex numbers? Fraqtive42 (talk) 03:25, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

Edit request from Cal-linux, 21 September 2011

All of the occurrences of Abelian should be replaced by abelian (except of course if starting a sentence).

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abelian_group#A_note_on_the_typography (though they say "often written", from all of the math teachers I've had on related areas, they emphasize and note it as a remarkable fact, that abelian is written with lowercase a --- not "often written", but just "written").

Cal-linux (talk) 00:22, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

Done, thanks. A simple search on Google scholar also confirms lower case is the more common typography among reliable sources. Adrian J. Hunter^{(talk•contribs)} 11:16, 22 September 2011 (UTC)