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Wiki-links of incorrect format and nonsense names like "Mike" and "Lviv" created by machine translation [1] at January 10, 2010. IMHO it would be better just to revert such edits or make a thorough cleanup rather than to correct such mistakes one by one with many edits. Incnis Mrsi ( talk) 14:50, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
The sentence “With a passionate interest they read and commented on the theory of Kaba, Fourier series, Proudhon, and finally, listened with delight to Belinsky's letter to Gogol" is either a piece of hilarious vandalism, a very serious misunderstanding, or a very unlikely piece of historical trivia that merits further explanation. Usually when the name Fourier is mentioned in the same breath as 19th century revolutionaries (especially Frenchmen like Proudhon), the referent is Utopian socialist Charles Fourier, not his contemporary mathematician Joseph Fourier, who the Fourier series is named after.
Now, it's possible that 19th century Russian revolutionaries were fascinated with the prospect of decomposing functions into their periodic components, but if that's the case, it should be clarified.
Thanks, 184.17.170.153 ( talk) 22:20, 22 June 2012 (UTC)
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Wiki-links of incorrect format and nonsense names like "Mike" and "Lviv" created by machine translation [1] at January 10, 2010. IMHO it would be better just to revert such edits or make a thorough cleanup rather than to correct such mistakes one by one with many edits. Incnis Mrsi ( talk) 14:50, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
The sentence “With a passionate interest they read and commented on the theory of Kaba, Fourier series, Proudhon, and finally, listened with delight to Belinsky's letter to Gogol" is either a piece of hilarious vandalism, a very serious misunderstanding, or a very unlikely piece of historical trivia that merits further explanation. Usually when the name Fourier is mentioned in the same breath as 19th century revolutionaries (especially Frenchmen like Proudhon), the referent is Utopian socialist Charles Fourier, not his contemporary mathematician Joseph Fourier, who the Fourier series is named after.
Now, it's possible that 19th century Russian revolutionaries were fascinated with the prospect of decomposing functions into their periodic components, but if that's the case, it should be clarified.
Thanks, 184.17.170.153 ( talk) 22:20, 22 June 2012 (UTC)