Wiki143:Articles for deletion/Variational number theory

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The result of the debate was delete. — FireFox (UTC) 11:02, 28 May '06

Variational number theory

Unverifiable, probably original research. No hits on MathSciNet or Google for the phrase "variational number theory". I asked two experts on number theory, User:Dmharvey (see User talk:Linas#Variational number theory) and User:Mon4 (see User talk:Jitse Niesen#Bombieri-Vinogradov theorem), neither of whom could verify that a field with the name "variational number theory" exist. The article used to include the reference

• H.Harrison-Hwang Ho Cheng "Functional analysis and optimization applied to Number theory" Cambridge University press ISBN 0-521-53972-7

but this book does not exist. When the author was alerted on his talk page, he removed the reference without putting another one in even though I asked him to.

On Talk:Variational number theory, the author mentions two references, both standard text books (Courant & Hilbert is, among other things, about calculus of variations). However, neither of them mentions variational number theory. I do believe that at least the first example is correct, and that it can be deduced using these two references, but it does seem that there is no field of "variational number theory", and the inclusion of a non-existing book in the references is, to put it kindly, a strange mistake to make. -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 13:21, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

• Delete, WP:V, WP:NOR. --Terence Ong 13:44, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete (unless the author can provide evidence that the term is well-known). Dmharvey 14:23, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, unless better sources are provided. Paul August ☎ 02:57, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

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