Talk:Glossary of mathematics

This article was nominated for deletion on 18 June 2019. The result of the discussion was keep.

More definitions?[edit]

Did a draft many years ago of a similar article (see User:Qwertyxp2000/Glossary of mathematical terms), and I am thinking that the following words might be suitable on that new article too:

bisector
parameter
transversal

There might be more definitions out there that I was missing, but hopefully it should help develop this article better. Not quite sure where I can find reliable sources for each mathematical definition though. Qwertyxp2000 (talk | contribs) 12:48, 6 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I agree (that they should be included in the glossary). There are some encyclopedias on mathematical terms, and they should be used as sources, I think. -- Taku (talk) 07:24, 7 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Merger with List of mathematical jargon[edit]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.

To merge the articles to a new joint term, the Glossary of mathematical jargon; unopposed solution of D.Lazard. Klbrain (talk) 10:19, 29 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I propose a merger of this article with List of mathematical jargon (the latter into the former). The reason: I think the glossary style is better than the list style for that type of materials. As can be seen, the list article currently tries to define terms than just list them; so it fits better in a glossary like this one. —- Taku (talk) 07:31, 16 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Support per nom. I can't really imagine a situation where both articles are well-developed without duplicating each other. Felix QW (talk) 07:46, 27 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Additionally, the terms defined there all seem common to several areas of mathematics, so they are exactly the sort of term that this glossary should be including. Felix QW (talk) 07:51, 27 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose though I would support the opposite merge. The present "glossary" has much fewer items than that "list" and is merely alphabetical, while the latter has analytical subsections for (at the moment) four categories of mathematical language (not necessarily different areas of mathematics, which is a different thing). Expressions are ordered there alphabetically within each subsection even though there are no A B C etc. headers. The argument that the glossary style is better than the list style is IMO irrelevant: both articles use the same style, which is a list of definitions ordered by the word or expression defined — I regard each of them as both a list and a glossary, or, if by glossary you mean a fully alphabetized list with no subtitles, then I prefer a glossary with a few subtitles, which I suppose you call a list. — Tonymec (talk) 21:57, 28 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Support but perhaps into Glossary of mathematics. Not sure which article should host the list of maths terms, but I think the target should be Glossary of mathematics, since it's about glossarying terms of all maths-related concepts. ~~Qwertyxp2000 (talk | contribs) 06:08, 29 March 2023 (UTC)~~ Qwertyxp2000 (talk | contribs) 06:09, 29 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Support into List of mathematical jargon. The given entries right now in the Glossary of mathematics article are useful for the mathematical jargon article. Also, "glossary of mathematics" is a bit broad in terms of what the glossary does, so maybe Glossary of mathematics should be a disambig page for the various glossaries of maths currently out there on Wikipedia. Qwertyxp2000 (talk | contribs) 06:11, 29 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

While I agree that perhaps Glossary of Mathematics may be overly broad, I would do think that articles explaining jargon should be formatted as glossaries and use "glossary" in their title.

I am also not sure whether "mathematical jargon" is any less broad than "mathematics" in the title of a glossary, whose whole point is to explain jargon. Felix QW (talk) 07:54, 29 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Support and merge also the article titles into Glossary of mathematical jargon. Presently, Glossary of mathematics is a stub that contains only jargon, but its title lets suppose that it should contain eventually most mathematical terms, that is, most article titles. This would clearly be a nonsense. So, the merged article must be focused on jargon, that is on terms that are commonly used without being formally defined. The suggested name is motivated by the fact that List of mathematical jargon is formatted as a glossary, even if the template {{glossary}} is not used. D.Lazard (talk) 08:35, 29 March 2023 (UTC)°[reply]
Support merge into this title as suggested by D.Lazard. This seems to be a very good solution, as it emphasises the limited scope of the glossary and at the same time clarifies that it is a glossary rather than merely a list of terms. Felix QW (talk) 08:39, 29 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Done Klbrain (talk) 10:28, 29 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]