Talk:Carl Friedrich Gauss
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The result was:promoted byHey man im josh talk 14:33, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Dioskorides (talk)21:49, 10 July 2024 (UTC).[reply]
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Fantastic work bringing this to GA status! Great choice for a hook!Reywas92Talk01:09, 15 July 2024 (UTC)[reply] | Thispeer review discussion is closed. |
I've listed this article for peer review because I plan to nominate it as a featured article and I believe it meets all criteria.
Thanks,Sushidude21! (talk)23:22, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
This wasdelisted in 2008. One of the issues raised was that the lead needed to be expanded, so I'll start there.
who contributed to many fields in mathematics and scienceYou've already listed four fields, so this seems redundant. Maybe "also contributed to many other fields"?
masterpieces Disquisitiones ArithmeticaeWP:SOB
proving the law of quadratic reciprocity and proving the triangular case=> "proving the law of quadratic reciprocity as well as the triangular case ..."
he propounded several mathematical theoremsI had to look up "propounded". I suggest using a more commonly understood word here. OED says "There are ten meanings listed in OED's entry for the verb propound, seven of which are labelled obsolete."
he was one of the founders of geophysicsThe article says "Gauss influenced the beginning of geophysics in Russia"; it's not entirely clear what that means. Does it mean "Gauss influenced the beginning of geophysics and he was in Russia when he did that"? Or "There was already a field of geophysics which Gauss helped bring to Russia"?
He developed a fast Fourier transformThe article says "discrete Fourier transforms". Somebody who is better at math than me should weigh in here, but I'm not sure that "fast Fourier transform" is exactly the same as "discrete Fourier transform".
Gauss confessed to disliking teaching, but some of his students became influential mathematiciansI don't think that's a legitimate use of "but".
Reading though the article, I recognize several different styles of writing. This is, of course, because the article has been written over many years, by many different authors. Harmonizing these styles is not easy, and looking atWP:FACR 1a ("its prose is engaging and of a professional standard") I'm not even convinced it's required, but it sure would be nice. That being said, some of the writing exhibits a"choppy" feel, which does need to get fixed to be considered "engaging and of a professional standard". For example:
Gauss was born on 30 April 1777 in Brunswick in the Duchy of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (now in the German state of Lower Saxony). His family was of relatively low social status.[5] His father Gebhard Dietrich Gauss (1744–1808) worked variously as a butcher, bricklayer, gardener, and treasurer of a death-benefit fund. Gauss characterized his father as honourable and respected, but rough and dominating at home. He was experienced in writing and calculating, whereas his second wife Dorothea, Carl Friedrich's mother, was nearly illiterate.[6] He had one elder brother from his father's first marriage.[7]
is a classic collection of simple declarative sentences with no overall flow connecting them.
@Dioskorides, your work is much appreciated, but it's worth always keeping in mind, as you know, that the GAN process is one person ensuring rather permissive guidelines apply to an article—it's not at all the case that no removals can be made without prior permission.Remsense ‥ 论20:17, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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