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This seems an absurdly general category, and many articles appear to be missing from it. I suppose the most obvious are:
Beyond that, even if we restrict attention just to operators on functions, there are a huge number of articles that have been omitted. Any integral transform fits the bill:
Also, many differential operators are of this kind, including
Pretty much any operator that generalizes the derivative:
And so forth. Personally, I think such a category is a hopeless endeavor. A sizeable portion of modern mathematics is dedicated to the study of linear operators, and so attempting to put them all in such a category is a Sisyphean task. But if we are going to have a category at all, then we should at least endeavor to make it as complete as possible. Sławomir Biały ( talk) 15:44, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
General categories have their place, even if everything in them should be in a subcategory. Articles in a subcategory are not "missing". It seems this category probably has an organisational role to play. Probably an effort should be made to put everything into at least one subcategory: this is a good way to notice subcategories that should be created becuse they are useful. Charles Matthews ( talk) 12:58, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
By the way, what about Unbounded operator (and some links therefrom)? Boris Tsirelson ( talk) 13:08, 9 June 2009 (UTC) Maybe also Discontinuous linear map. Boris Tsirelson ( talk) 06:10, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
Mathematics Category‑class | |||||||
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This seems an absurdly general category, and many articles appear to be missing from it. I suppose the most obvious are:
Beyond that, even if we restrict attention just to operators on functions, there are a huge number of articles that have been omitted. Any integral transform fits the bill:
Also, many differential operators are of this kind, including
Pretty much any operator that generalizes the derivative:
And so forth. Personally, I think such a category is a hopeless endeavor. A sizeable portion of modern mathematics is dedicated to the study of linear operators, and so attempting to put them all in such a category is a Sisyphean task. But if we are going to have a category at all, then we should at least endeavor to make it as complete as possible. Sławomir Biały ( talk) 15:44, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
General categories have their place, even if everything in them should be in a subcategory. Articles in a subcategory are not "missing". It seems this category probably has an organisational role to play. Probably an effort should be made to put everything into at least one subcategory: this is a good way to notice subcategories that should be created becuse they are useful. Charles Matthews ( talk) 12:58, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
By the way, what about Unbounded operator (and some links therefrom)? Boris Tsirelson ( talk) 13:08, 9 June 2009 (UTC) Maybe also Discontinuous linear map. Boris Tsirelson ( talk) 06:10, 13 June 2009 (UTC)