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Can someone provide a correct pronunciation of "Cauchy"?
The correct French pronunciation is like "koh-shee." The American bastardization version is like "Cushy." - K. Cauchy
The article claims that Cauchy "was the first to define complex numbers as pairs of real numbers". Is this misleading? I would like to see a reference, because David M. Burton, in his The History of Mathematics: An Introduction, p. 611, states that Karl Gauss used a geometric interpretation of complex numbers without discussion in his dissertation (1799), explained it to Bessel in a letter in 1811, and published it in 1831. Burton goes on to say that Gauss' representation was in terms of points in the plane. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Scorwin ( talk • contribs) 20:34, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
Cauchy's talent is not nearly as rare as 174.3.155.181 claims. Certainly, he is no match to either Euler, Gauss or Abel among many other mathematicians. Moreover, Cauchy's scientific integrity was and remains questionable, since no one is able to resolve this issue in his favor. Whoever thinks he is a genius better refrain from imposing own biased and faulty beliefs upon others. For fairness, one ought not forget the many dubious mistakes he made such as confusing continuity with uniform continuity. He criticized Euler's infinite summation but contemporary mathematics (and physics) has upheld Euler's point of view, unlike common textbooks in analysis. He vulgarly criticized Gauss for being thought "constipated" and was justly answered that "Cauchy suffers from thought diarrhea". Unlike Euler's, much his writings suffer from low quality. Apparently, he was overly concerned with raising his citation index, so he succeeded to be "most known and regarded" among lesser mathematicians. Certainly, "genius" is not the right word to summarize Cauchy, and one must not be guided by personal sympathies to Cauchy's monarchist and catholic ideology in order to exaggerate his modest scientific merits.Highness 06:13, 1 July 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by J20160628 ( talk • contribs)
* Comment: Not sure why this is an RFC. Nor what the ratty tone is all about. I checked the article (very superficially) and though I am not obsessive about citations, there is no doubt that it is under-cited, perhaps a bit POV, and not always "encyclopedically" phrased. But those are things that can be fixed with a bit of editing, tagging, or maybe supplying citations oneself, or correcting arguable points, urban legends, or exaggerations. If the guilty parties get snotty about it, then will be the time to start RFCs, call in admins etc. Meanwhile... JonRichfield ( talk) 07:04, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
Hi main authors, the sentence "Cauchy had two brothers: ... who also wrote several mathematical works." appears twice in the article. Is that intentional? Regards: Herbmuell ( talk) 21:06, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
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The article gives the pronunciation as /koʊˈʃiː/; that is, with the stress on the second syllable. It's not clear whether this is meant to be an English or French pronunciation (normally we use square brackets and a narrower phonetic rendering for foreign-language IPA).
If it's supposed to be English, I've (almost) always heard /ˈkoʊ.ʃiː/ with the stress on the first syllable. If it's supposed to be French, well, French doesn't have phonemic stress, so it's not clear what it's supposed to mean. (Anglophones usually hear French as being stressed on the final syllable, but I suspect this is largely a reaction to the fact that most English words are de-stressed on the final syllable, so if you pronounce them equally, it sounds like it's stressed on the final.) -- Trovatore ( talk) 01:05, 19 January 2019 (UTC)
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Can someone provide a correct pronunciation of "Cauchy"?
The correct French pronunciation is like "koh-shee." The American bastardization version is like "Cushy." - K. Cauchy
The article claims that Cauchy "was the first to define complex numbers as pairs of real numbers". Is this misleading? I would like to see a reference, because David M. Burton, in his The History of Mathematics: An Introduction, p. 611, states that Karl Gauss used a geometric interpretation of complex numbers without discussion in his dissertation (1799), explained it to Bessel in a letter in 1811, and published it in 1831. Burton goes on to say that Gauss' representation was in terms of points in the plane. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Scorwin ( talk • contribs) 20:34, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
Cauchy's talent is not nearly as rare as 174.3.155.181 claims. Certainly, he is no match to either Euler, Gauss or Abel among many other mathematicians. Moreover, Cauchy's scientific integrity was and remains questionable, since no one is able to resolve this issue in his favor. Whoever thinks he is a genius better refrain from imposing own biased and faulty beliefs upon others. For fairness, one ought not forget the many dubious mistakes he made such as confusing continuity with uniform continuity. He criticized Euler's infinite summation but contemporary mathematics (and physics) has upheld Euler's point of view, unlike common textbooks in analysis. He vulgarly criticized Gauss for being thought "constipated" and was justly answered that "Cauchy suffers from thought diarrhea". Unlike Euler's, much his writings suffer from low quality. Apparently, he was overly concerned with raising his citation index, so he succeeded to be "most known and regarded" among lesser mathematicians. Certainly, "genius" is not the right word to summarize Cauchy, and one must not be guided by personal sympathies to Cauchy's monarchist and catholic ideology in order to exaggerate his modest scientific merits.Highness 06:13, 1 July 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by J20160628 ( talk • contribs)
* Comment: Not sure why this is an RFC. Nor what the ratty tone is all about. I checked the article (very superficially) and though I am not obsessive about citations, there is no doubt that it is under-cited, perhaps a bit POV, and not always "encyclopedically" phrased. But those are things that can be fixed with a bit of editing, tagging, or maybe supplying citations oneself, or correcting arguable points, urban legends, or exaggerations. If the guilty parties get snotty about it, then will be the time to start RFCs, call in admins etc. Meanwhile... JonRichfield ( talk) 07:04, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
Hi main authors, the sentence "Cauchy had two brothers: ... who also wrote several mathematical works." appears twice in the article. Is that intentional? Regards: Herbmuell ( talk) 21:06, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
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The article gives the pronunciation as /koʊˈʃiː/; that is, with the stress on the second syllable. It's not clear whether this is meant to be an English or French pronunciation (normally we use square brackets and a narrower phonetic rendering for foreign-language IPA).
If it's supposed to be English, I've (almost) always heard /ˈkoʊ.ʃiː/ with the stress on the first syllable. If it's supposed to be French, well, French doesn't have phonemic stress, so it's not clear what it's supposed to mean. (Anglophones usually hear French as being stressed on the final syllable, but I suspect this is largely a reaction to the fact that most English words are de-stressed on the final syllable, so if you pronounce them equally, it sounds like it's stressed on the final.) -- Trovatore ( talk) 01:05, 19 January 2019 (UTC)