Category talk:Soviet mathematicians
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Why "Soviet Union"? Why not just "Soviet"? --Gene s 13:04, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- Analogy with the existing category "Soviet Union cosmonauts". If you think Soviet is more appropriate, I can do appropriate changes (this will take some time though). So, what do you think? Cmapm
- It's not a very big deal, it's just odd. If you look at Category:Soviet_people and Category:Soviet_Union, you will see that the majority are just "Soviet". I believe the proper way is "Something of Soviet Union" and "Soviet something". --Gene s 13:29, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- Your arguments are reasonable, I'll try to fix this in near future before adding more people into "physicists" and "mathematicians" categories . Cmapm 13:36, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- It seems that I've fixed that. I didn't change "cosmonauts" category, because it wasn't created by me, may be a person wanted to seem odd :-) I'm not a perfect translator and sometimes odd things appear in my edits (the similar case was with the Category:Explorers of the Arctic, I missed "the" creating it) and it's very good when somebody points them out. Cmapm 18:34, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- It's not a very big deal, it's just odd. If you look at Category:Soviet_people and Category:Soviet_Union, you will see that the majority are just "Soviet". I believe the proper way is "Something of Soviet Union" and "Soviet something". --Gene s 13:29, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Soviet versus Russian?
What's the difference exactly between Category:Soviet mathematicians and Category:Russian mathematicians? For example, should Eugene Dynkin be in both? dbenbenn | talk 23:29, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- Soviet mathematicians are those, who contributed to the Soviet science (i.e. science of the Soviet Union).They did their research work for part or all their life in the Soviet scientific institutions, which existed between 1924-1991 (they could be of any nationality and from any republic of the Soviet Union, not only Russians). Russian mathematicians are those who either were Russian by nationality or contributed to the science of Imperial Russia or the science of post-Soviet Russia. Eugene Dynkin was 1.Russian by nationality;2. in 1940-1976 worked in the Soviet institutions and contributed to the Soviet science. That's why he belong to both categories. Cmapm 01:03, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)
