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Needs more explanatyion about Weil's work, especially the Weil conjectures and Weil representation, and more on his Bourbaki contributions. Tompw ( talk) 14:25, 5 January 2007 (UTC) (edit) |
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Needs more explanatyion about Weil's work, especially the Weil conjectures and Weil representation, and more on his Bourbaki contributions. Tompw ( talk) 14:25, 5 January 2007 (UTC) |
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Well, I've heard of people confusing Weil with Weyl, but this (Weil/Wiles) seems a bit over the top to be given serious mention.
Charles Matthews 09:49, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- I disagree, having encountered people — mathematical people! — having being confused by this. —Lowellian (reply) 11:16, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
Shouldn't the small print in the "As expositor" section be at the beginning of the article?--Adoniscik 20:33, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
I think the 'l' in Weil is silent, shouldn't that be mentioned?
- Yeah, the pronunciation given was incorrect -- which is odd because the note on that edit had it right. I've fixed it. ~ CZeke 19:53, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] Pronunciation
I added back the stress marker to the first name removed by Kwamikagami. However, I left the change of the last phoneme in the last name (|ɪ| → |j|) in place despite my suspicion that it may not be correct. The name Weil in French appears to be given as |vɛɪ| in the article on Simone Weil as well as in those web sources I found. Stca74 17:35, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
- There is no stress in French, so I'll remove that again. (And you didn't add stress, you added an apostrophe, which is deprecated.) il and ille are normally [j] in French, and there's nothing in the French article to suggest otherwise. Of course, this could still be irregular, but there's no in French. kwami 20:08, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
- You're right. My mistake. Should have been careful with the [ɪ] vs. [i] and not copy-paste from Simone Weil. As for stress, I do not think that "there is no stress in French" is quite correct; my understanding is that instead (i) stress in words is quite regular, (ii) it is not contrastive (words not differentiated by stress alone) and (iii) it is often associated with larger units of speech than words (and thus the regular stress for isolated words is less meaningful). But in any case, not marking any stress follows the standard French dictionary approach and I agree is as it should. Finally, you're right that a [j] ending would be typical (ail,...), so let's keep unless someone proves otherwise. Thanks for your diligence! Stca74 15:53, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
