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We've been through this issue before, some years ago, though I don't remember the details. It could be looked up, but it isn't worth it. Here's the reasoning: A person wanting to get an overview of mathematics (or physics, or chemistry, or whatever) needs a place that they can peruse. There are a lot of topics -- the divergence theorem, category theory, algebraic topology, etc. etc. etc. A person wanting to become well-read in mathematics needs a big list that they can peruse. They may not know that algebraic topology is a subfield of topology, and so on. It would take a huge amount of painstaking searching of the category tree to get it all. If all these things are in "mathematics", a student can get the whole picture at once and see the full richness of mathematics. [[User:SamHB|SamHB]] ([[User talk:SamHB|talk]]) 23:58, 1 March 2021 (EST). | We've been through this issue before, some years ago, though I don't remember the details. It could be looked up, but it isn't worth it. Here's the reasoning: A person wanting to get an overview of mathematics (or physics, or chemistry, or whatever) needs a place that they can peruse. There are a lot of topics -- the divergence theorem, category theory, algebraic topology, etc. etc. etc. A person wanting to become well-read in mathematics needs a big list that they can peruse. They may not know that algebraic topology is a subfield of topology, and so on. It would take a huge amount of painstaking searching of the category tree to get it all. If all these things are in "mathematics", a student can get the whole picture at once and see the full richness of mathematics. [[User:SamHB|SamHB]] ([[User talk:SamHB|talk]]) 23:58, 1 March 2021 (EST). | ||
:Sounds good. Is there something we can be doing better in this regard?--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 18:20, 2 March 2021 (EST) | :Sounds good. Is there something we can be doing better in this regard?--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 18:20, 2 March 2021 (EST) | ||
| + | ::I agree that this makes sense. Some topics lend themselves to what SamHB is proposing.[[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 02:38, 3 March 2021 (EST) | ||
Latest revision as of 07:38, March 3, 2021
We've been through this issue before, some years ago, though I don't remember the details. It could be looked up, but it isn't worth it. Here's the reasoning: A person wanting to get an overview of mathematics (or physics, or chemistry, or whatever) needs a place that they can peruse. There are a lot of topics -- the divergence theorem, category theory, algebraic topology, etc. etc. etc. A person wanting to become well-read in mathematics needs a big list that they can peruse. They may not know that algebraic topology is a subfield of topology, and so on. It would take a huge amount of painstaking searching of the category tree to get it all. If all these things are in "mathematics", a student can get the whole picture at once and see the full richness of mathematics. SamHB (talk) 23:58, 1 March 2021 (EST).
- Sounds good. Is there something we can be doing better in this regard?--Andy Schlafly (talk) 18:20, 2 March 2021 (EST)
- I agree that this makes sense. Some topics lend themselves to what SamHB is proposing.Conservative (talk) 02:38, 3 March 2021 (EST)