Talk:William Feller

message: The book "Mathematicians fleeing from Nazi Germany" discusses several letters by Feller discussing his "Jewish descent"; Richard von Mises mocked Feller for being 75% Aryan. (Both on page 155)  Feller discusses Torsten Carleman's anti-semitism, particularly his habit of suggesting that foreigners and Jews be shot (page 135). Feller is quoted asking Courant for a note stating that Feller was "a good Christian" (on pages 32-33) during the year 1931 when he applied for German citizenship.  Sincerely, Kiefer.Wolfowitz (talk) 00:04, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Regarded as Jewish by anti-semites

message: What is a Feller explosion test? I could find no information or references about it besides this Wikipedia article... 58.107.215.254 05:53, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Feller explosion test? 

message: Gian-Carlo Rota lists "Feller" along with "Courant-Hilbert" and "Dunford and Schwartz" as the most revered books in mathematics, whose very mention brings religious feelings in the hearer (or something like that), in his review of Richard Stanley's Enumerative Combinatorics. (However, I agree with the leader of the Statistics Project that WP is better keeping to an encyclopedia tone!) Best regards, Kiefer.Wolfowitz (talk) 00:39, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Gian-Carlo was a student of his and generally revered him and his works; I went ahead and added "unreliable source" to the quote in the article. I'm certain that much better sources are out there that describe the lasting impact of his work, rather than an empty statement of reverence. Foxyshadis(talk) 20:31, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: See my edit summary reverting your edit. Your statement of emptiness is empty. Rota was one of the world's most respected mathematicians. See tributes in Math Intelligencer, and Notices of the AMS. Rota put Feller in the class of books like Dunford Schwartz, Stanley, etc., which is very select company. It was not an empty statement.  Kiefer.Wolfowitz 20:43, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm confused, your edit summary is "see tributes in Math Intelligencer, Notices of AMS" but I'm not psychic and neither are the other readers of this article. If that's pertinent information, put it in the article citations. Surely they would even carry more weight by describing the impact on the field, rather than simply asserting that there was an impact. One person, however qualified, claiming to revere someone else is not very useful to anyone who doesn't automatically share that reverence. Foxyshadis(talk) 10:27, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Psychic powers do not exist. Furthermore, persons who do not drink from toilet bowls when unattended who are not drooling while rocking back and forth in a catatonic stupor may be supposed to have the ability to click the blue-link for Rota.  Kiefer.Wolfowitz 10:30, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Not only had I already read the article on Rota, but I looked it over again and was unable to find either of the refs you referred to. Aside from your grade-school insults, it would help if you'd just bother to make a little bit of sense. All I wanted was to be pointed to what you referred to, so I could cite it in the article, even if you didn't want to. Do you really feel like you have anything to contribute to Wikipedia if that's your attitude? Foxyshadis(talk) 20:20, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Feller" uttered with reverence 

message: In the section on Work, the article says that Feller worked (among others) on the "theory of measurement." This almost surely should be "measure theory" (a big difference). I did not correct this since I am not sure he actually worked in measure theory per se (aside from the fact that some of his probability work can perhaps also be considered as work in measure theory). It would be important to make corrections. Mateat (talk) 23:51, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Theory of measurement?? 

message: It would seem to me that we should put Feller in various X descent cats based on his original nationality, and then just put in in the category Yugoslav emigrants to the United States.  He does not belong in :Category:Crotian emigrants to the United States because this is only for people who emigrated from both-1990 Croatia.  Feller came to the US from Denmark, but his national allegiance at the time of getting citizenship was to Yugoslavia.John Pack Lambert (talk) 21:36, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  As an immigrant does it make sense to put Feller in American people of X descent cats 

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