Talk:List of amateur mathematicians

message: I removed George Padamadan since he was an amateur philosopher, not an amatuer mathematician. I'm also leaving the likes of Fermat off, since if you go back far enough most of them are amatuers. The latter half of the 19th century seems far enough. User: Gene Ward Smith
Are Heegner and Garfield really comparable??? The former proved a famous, important long-standing conjecture of Gauss; the latter is only known for coming up with another of hundreds of proofs of Pythagorean theorem (that I am aware of), more curiosity compared to Heegner.
:I submit that this list would be a lot more useful if it summarised their contribution to mathematics. - Just zis  Guy, you know? [T]/[C] (W) AfD? 23:21, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
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message: I agree with  Just zis  Guy, you know? that summaries would be useful here.  What has Richard Pryor done as a mathematician? CRGreathouse (talk | contribs) 08:29, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Summaries

message: Maybe?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.49.110.120 (talk) 06:38, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Leon Bankoff]] ?? 

message: Kathleen Ollerenshaw seems to have worked as lecturer, according to the wikipedia bio.  I cannot find any mathematical contribution by Alex Wong, and his pages seem to be down. 130.75.46.5 (talk) 18:30, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  should work through the list 

message: After going through every article in the List of mathematicians this is the result. What struck me is the number of names that I remember from high school and college! Some of these names I was quite shocked to see that they never saw the inside of a university! I put it down to proof that cream rises to the top. Also if you have an idea keep at it.--Oracleofottawa (talk) 03:01, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Done and done

message: The article would be better if the list was broken down by century, each person to the date of his/her birth.--109.124.131.251 (talk) 11:10, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I came here to suggest the same thing Weburbia (talk) 18:06, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Listing by century 

message: I don't see what the role of the "See also" list is.  The people on it seem to be in some respects interesting and unusual, but not to be amateur mathematicians.  I didn't check all of them, but I assume that if they were actual amateur mathematicians, they would be on the main list.  I would remove the list. Ctourneur (talk) 05:20, 8 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. Some of the entries are also a bit dubious in my opinion. They don't seem to distinguish carefully between someone who makes a living doing something else and does mathematics as a hobby (an amateur) from someone who has little or no formal education in mathematics but nevertheless makes a living doing something mathematical (not an amateur). —David Eppstein (talk) 05:33, 8 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I have removed it.  If someone feels that it should be restored, I have no objection in principle, but I think it should be clarified what the list is supposed to be listing.Ctourneur (talk) 01:32, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  See also list? 

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message: If we're allowed Danica McKellar on this list, then why also not Ken Keeler? Both have seen the inside of a university, the former even having an Erdos number of 4, and both have careers in showbiz. Is the fact that Keeler got a PhD in maths make him a professional? --Matt Westwood 22:03, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  What about Kenneth Keeler, does he fit? 

message: I'm creating one based on this list. Columns are, in order:
* Portrait
* Name
* Vocation
* Birth
* Death
* Nationality
Sandbox-article here. Notes are in Talk-page there
Jontajonta (talk) 16:45, 4 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Table instead