Talk:Contributions of Leonhard Euler to mathematics

message: This page is a bad idea for many reasons. Since it contains no more content than the section in Leonhard Euler, linking here from that page fools readers who expect to find out more. It is also unmaintainable -- who is going to update one page with changes done to the other? If someone greatly expands this page -- fine, but then someone should do it now. It serves no good purpose as a placeholder in its current state.
I don't think the choice of topic is a good one for an article either, since it is itself an overview and as such duplicates the purpose of the parent article. Maybe specific pages on contributions to more narrow areas like analysis, number theory, etc, would be better (we could think of Basel problem and Seven Bridges of Königsberg as examples). But again, someone should write the articles first, and actually make them long (and different) enough to warrant their own pages. Fredrik Johansson 16:57, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I wholly disagree. Sure it needs to be expanded but it is meant to contain more detailed content and more technical descriptions. I agree that it needs expansion but this is actually a pretty good idea for an article. Once it is expanded properly, the overview in the main article could be shortened a bit. Pascal.Tesson 17:00, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

text: Whoa. Cool down man. You might also consider expanding it yourself you know. Pascal.Tesson 12:32, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

text: I don't suppose you bothered trying to understand why this page was created in the first place so let me explain: the article was created so that the Leonhard Euler article was kept to reasonnable length and remained highly readable for non-mathematicians. As is always the case when such things are done, the resulting article is indeed a copy of the original content and is meant to slowly evolve into something better. I'm not sure why you say that it's not your responsibility to expand the page: if you have a better idea then please be bold and do something about it but you can't simply run around and say "I don't like this, I don't like that" and expect people to follow your cues. The article already contains content that was intentionally kept out of the parent article like the bits on logs of negative numbers or topology. Pascal.Tesson 13:09, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

text: you can't simply run around and say "I don't like this, I don't like that" and expect people to follow your cues
Of course I can; the purpose of talk pages is to say what we like and don't like for others to listen to. But if by "following cues" you mean that you think I'm trying to force you to do something, I recommend WP:TEA. Fredrik Johansson 14:00, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

text: I suggest this page be gradually phased out, either adding material to the main Euler article, or adding material to specific technical mathematical articles.  The "Graph Theory" section here, for example, seems to be completely redundant. Radagast3 (talk) 13:29, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

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