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[edit] Edits made during March 21, 2007

Please do not remove maintenance notices from pages, as you did to Peter Vowell, unless the required changes have been made. If you are uncertain whether the page requires further work, or if you disagree with the notice, please discuss these issues on the page's talk page before removing the notice from the page. These notices and comments are needed to establish community consensus about the status of a page. Thank you. Valrith 22:03, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

But I removed no good text. I removed poorly sourced crap.

[edit] Edits made during March 22, 2007

Please do not delete content from articles on Wikipedia, as you did to Helen Tse. Your edits appear to be vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Valrith 21:06, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

I removed poorly sourced crap.

[edit] Edits made during March 23, 2007

Please stop. If you continue to blank out (or delete portions of) page content, templates or other materials from Wikipedia, you will be blocked from editing. Valrith 02:18, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Testing

Lol 82.36.178.185 16:07, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your message

Thanks for message, see [reply]. Pat Muldowney (talk) 07:00, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Ralph Henstock page

Just noticed massive amount of work done on this page, I presume by you. Many thanks. A point in the opening paragraph: "As an Integration theorist, he is notable for developing the work of Jaroslav Kurzweil." Great care has been taken in this subject not to open up any Newton/Leibniz-type argument about priority in the creation of the subject. The way this issue has been dealt with, and indeed the truth of the matter, is to say that Kurzweil and Henstock discovered the idea independently in the 1950's. Kurzweil used the idea to solve a problem in differential equations, in a paper published in 1957, but did not, at the time, extend the idea into a theory of integration. In 1960 Henstock published a book containing the first developed theory of integration on these lines. Henstock was unaware of Kurzweil's paper until a correspondent in Prague mentioned it to him in a letter in 1963. As far as I can remember offhand, Henstock described this encounter in some later publication of his own. Anyway, when I was sorting Henstock's papers for archiving las year I found this 1963 letter.

So it is not strictly true to say that "(Henstock) is notable for developing the work of Jaroslav Kurzweil", since he brought the theory to a highly developed stage without ever having encountered Kurzweil's 1957 paper. Even in terms of which of them was, in calendar terms, the first in print with the idea, there is a case for giving the prize to Henstock, since it crops up in a 1955 paper of his. But that gets a bit silly, since ideas like this are often churning around in people's heads often for a long time before they actually appear in formal publication. Indeed, some very important ideas remain for a long period in word-of-mouth, lecture form or the like.

Anyway, I think the "independently developed" line is the widely accepted one. Thanks again for taking such trouble with this article. Pat Muldowney (talk) 12:45, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Eagle Eye on Beak

The D.M.W. Beak reference is well-spotted! Pat Muldowney (talk) 16:57, 4 June 2008 (UTC)