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This page is designed to help choose a Mathematics Collaboration of the Week. This is a specific mathematics-related topic which either has no article, a basic stub page, or needs major revision. The aim is to have a featured-standard article by the end of the two weeks, from widespread cooperative editing.

The project aims to fill gaps in Wikipedia, to give users a focus and to give us all something to be proud of. Anyone can nominate an article and can vote for the nominated articles. Every week, the votes are tallied, and the winner will be promoted for a week to potential contributors.

Probability theory The current Mathematics Collaboration of the Week is Probability theory. Please help improving this article to featured article standard. Last week's collaboration was False discovery rate

Contents 1 Participants 2 Selecting the next Collaboration of the Week 3 Nominations 4 Templates involved in MATHCOTW 5 Candidates 5.1 Andrew Wiles 5.2 Theorem 5.3 Equilibrium 5.4 Fermat's Last Theorem 5.5 Legendre's conjecture 5.6 Brocard's conjecture 5.7 Landau's problems 5.8 Preda Mihailescu 5.9 Euler's conjecture 5.10 Set 5.11 Probability theory

[edit] Participants

• Please put your username here if you wish to participate and be contacted when the Math CotW changes.

1. Meekohi
2. Sr13 (T|C)
3. Hippasus the Younger
4. Hirak 99

[edit] Selecting the next Collaboration of the Week

• Voting
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  • Please vote for as many of the following candidates as you like.
  • To enter your votes, simply edit the appropriate sections and insert a new line with "# ~~~~". This will add your username and a time stamp in a new numbered list item.
  • Please add only support votes. Opposing votes will not affect the result, as the winner is simply the one with the most support votes (see approval voting).

[edit] Nominations

• Nominations
  • New nominations may be added by anyone at any time at the end of this page. Please use the template at the bottom of this page.
  • If the page you are nominating already exists, please add {{MathCOTW}} to the top of its talk page.
• Considerations for nominations
  • Please only nominate articles which fit one or more of the following guidelines:
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  • For non-stubs, submitting the article to pages needing attention, cleanup, peer review, or requests for expansion may be more appropriate.
  • Consider whether the wider community easily contribute to the article or only a small number of people will know about.
  • Giving reasons as to why an article should become the COTW may assist others in casting their vote. If you have a to-do list feel free to include it.

• Voting for your own article
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[edit] Templates involved in MATHCOTW

• {{MathsCOTW}}: to be put onto the talk page of articles up for nomination.
• {{Current-Math-COTW}}: to be put onto the currently collaborating article's talk page.
• {{CurrentMathCOTW}}: displays the current collaboration.
• {{Wikipedia:Mathematics Collaboration of the Week/current}}: holds the name of the collaboration of this week.

[edit] Candidates

The path to a Featured Article
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• Add new nominations to the bottom of the page.
• Candidates are generally promoted to Collaborations when they have received more than three votes.

[edit] Andrew Wiles

The Andrew Wiles at present does not give very information about Wiles' work and its effect on mathematics and future mathematicians. Wiles' insight and techquenes are have been studied by many mathematicians.

1. Nominate and Support. Timothy Clemans 02:00, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
2. Support Wiles is a 'well-known' person in the public for his work with Fermat's last theorem and the current article needs a lot of work Snailwalker | talk 13:23, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
3. Support Algebra man 21:19, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Theorem

This article is identified in WP:CORE and Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics/Wikipedia 1.0 as being a core wikipedia article yet received the second worst rating of Start, being only just better than a stub. It was given the comment unorganized. This article is currently specific to mathematics, although Category:Theorems covers the other sciences as well. --Salix alba (talk) 13:34, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

1. Amir Aliev 16:20, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
2. Support A Geek Tragedy 15:53, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
3. Support. Iotha 02:06, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
4. Yeah, that's a terrible article. Support. -Hobbularmodule 15:46, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
5. Support. It needs work. Nate | Talk ^Esperanza! 03:20, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Equilibrium

Is currently a disambig page, but could either include a section discussing the meaning in mathematics, or make a new article, perhaps Equilibrium (mathematics) that discusses the concept and then links to various applied fields, as listed on the disambiguation page. Also see Steady state (disambiguation).

Support

1. Samsara (talk • contribs) 21:25, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fermat's Last Theorem

The history of this conundrum is really fascinating, but the article hardly does it justice. So easy to understand...so hard to prove... Support

1. HereToHelp 00:26, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Comments

[edit] Legendre's conjecture

A very simple conjecture that needs to be extensively expanded and improved. In stub status. Sr13 09:28, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

1. Support - Davivalle 15:35, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Brocard's conjecture

This conjecture is also very simple, but is not in depth and not thoroughly explained. In stub status. Sr13 09:28, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Landau's problems

A list of four problems that are yet to be solved. Could improve on the history and a brief explanation on each of the problems. In stub status. Sr13 09:28, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Preda Mihailescu

This person proved Catalan's conjecture, and deserves to have a decent article. Improve on everything! In stub status. Sr13 09:28, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

OK, I gave it a shot. Turgidson 05:55, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Euler's conjecture

A conjecture so simple...taking almost 300 years to prove...yet not a good article! Must be completely refurmished. In stub status. Sr13 09:28, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Set

One of the founding concepts of modern mathematics and a vital article. Should be a good article at least! Needs expansion. CloudNine 17:16, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Probability theory

Despite being a high importance mathematics article, the quality of Probability Theory still demands a lot of improvement. A lot need be added, clarified and copy edited (if not rewritten) in this article to make it up to standards. I propose it for all your support. Hirak 99 18:38, 28 March 2007 (UTC)