Talk:Paul Cohen

message: In reading the quote by Cohen, I find some words that convey no meaning. To say that a set is "incredibly rich" is to say that any person cannot believe how large a quantity of elements are contained in the set. To say that other people may "express themselves more eloquently" is to say that they will use more  appropriate force. But, more force will not result in better proof. Neither of these phrases coveys any clear or intelligible information.64.12.116.74 12:49, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: "To say that a set is 'incredibly rich' is to say that any person cannot believe how large a quantity of elements are contained in the set." You don't know this. You don't know what Paul Cohen meant by "incredibly rich", because you aren't as smart as Cohen was. Something that I know is that the qualities of the contents of a set do not depend just on the number of elements in it, but also on the interrelationships between those elements. Did you ever think of that? :Then to get the real answer, you would have to go find someone who is smart enough to genuinely understand the writings of Cohen. Do you have any trips planned to Stanford, UCLA, MIT, the University of Michigan, Harvard, Princeton, or the University of Cambridge?98.67.108.12 (talk) 03:04, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Cohen's Quote

message: A recent edit lists Paul Cohen as deceased.  A quick check of both google and the Stanford math department home page does not show up with any hits.  Is there any source for this info?  If not then this may be a hoax.  Terry 04:29, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: An email was also sent to the FOM list with the news of his passing. I am sure that in the coming week there will be an obituary published that we can link to. CMummert · talk 14:06, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: e-mail at FOM, dated March 24, 2007--Aleph4 12:05, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Deceased?

message: This article was automatically  assessed because at least one article was rated and this bot brought all the other ratings up to at least that level. BetacommandBot 00:22, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject class rating

message: Why mention Sarnak and no other students of his? 86.132.221.158 (talk) 18:47, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: The usual convention is to list in the infobox only the students who also have Wikipedia articles.  Among his other students, Harold G. Diamond at least looks like a plausible candidate for an article, but we don't have one already. —David Eppstein (talk) 19:19, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sarnak 

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message: There is a serious problem with this page. The photo that appears in the upper right is not of the right Paul Cohen. I am certain of this, as Paul was one of my professors at Stanford. I don't have time to fix this problem right now. Perhaps someone else can take care of it.
:I removed the image.  There doesn't appear to be a wikimedia version to replace it with, so we'll just leave it blank for now. Thanks for bringing this up.—Myasuda (talk) 02:00, 12 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: There are some excellent images at https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Cohen/. Click on "view eight larger pictures" below the photo in the upper right. Any of these would be good. At the bottom of that page, there is a link to "copyright information," where they state that most of the images are in the public domain. Cinclodes (talk) 19:40, 12 September 2023 (UTC)
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