Talk:Tauberian theorem

RFD discussion: March–April 2018

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Tauberian theorem

• Should theorems be in wiktionary? (also, it shouldn't begin with a capitalized letter) Yurivict (talk) 18:22, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
  • It isn't sum of parts because you can't know from the surname "Tauber" what the person's theorem is about (OR IS IT? we seem to cover it all at Tauberian). The form with capital T does occur; lower-case seems an alternative. Equinox ◑ 18:23, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
    • Then half of math theorems should be in wiktionary, because many of them are named in a similar way. Yurivict (talk) 19:11, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
      • Wouldn't an individual theorem almost always be a proper noun in the includable uses? In Latin the names of gentes and in scientific Latin supergeneric taxonomic names are proper names that are plural in form. So, perhaps even Tauberian theorems is a proper noun. DCDuring (talk) 21:59, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
      • Yurivict, yes. Why exclude useful terms like Huffman coding just because it has a name in it? Equinox ◑ 22:04, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
  • Yes, absolutely. We should be able to look these up on Wiktionary, and not have to google for a separate mathematical dictionary instead for such terms. Nicole Sharp (talk) 04:34, 17 March 2018 (UTC)
  • As an eponym, the default form is usually capitalized. "abelian" is actually a rare exception where I have often seen the eponym uncapitalized. Nicole Sharp (talk) 04:34, 17 March 2018 (UTC)
• Moved from RFD/Others. --Per utramque cavernam (talk) 22:42, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
• Keep; a related discussion is at Talk:Pauli exclusion principle. --Dan Polansky (talk) 19:51, 16 March 2018 (UTC)
• Keep. Nicole Sharp (talk) 04:34, 17 March 2018 (UTC)
• Keep, and thanks to Dan Polansky for the link to Talk:Pauli exclusion principle. I was on the fence, but I tend to agree with bd2412's point on that talk page that these are comparable to Grévy's zebra and Bose-Einstein condensate (or Newtonian fluid, or Pauli exclusion principle itself). - -sche (discuss) 18:15, 17 March 2018 (UTC)
• RFD passed. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 23:36, 15 April 2018 (UTC)