Talk:Gotthold Eisenstein

Promotional reseach paper
I removed the Four functions and sixteen Eisenstein series (by Heung Yeung Lam) link to a paper for the following reasons: there are hundreds of papers dealing with Eisenstein series; this particular one is published by a little known author at a little known journal, and finally since it has no relevance to the biography of Eisenstein. At best this link belongs to a math subject, not the biographical entry. Unless the contributor wants to explain on this page why this particular paper is relevant I believe this link should be kept out. Mhym 04:20, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Common name
His common name is and was Gotthold. You should not list him under Ferdinand E., even though his first name was Ferdinand, but he was called Gotthold by people. Also see German article, Gotthold Eisenstein -andy 80.129.82.33 04:08, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

"Gauss's choice of Eisenstein, who specialized in number theory and analysis, may seem puzzling to many, but Eisenstein proved several results that even eluded Gauss, such as the theorem on biquadratic reciprocity."


 * If we are meant to make the inference that Gauss was being partially self-serving in his statement, it might be okay to spell it out in the article more clearly. I think we did that with respect to the Isaac Newton "standing on the shoulders of giants" supposedly noble statement - but infact a gibe at Hooke, who was low of stature. -- Cimon Avaro; on a pogostick. (talk) 04:09, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Proposal to move this article to Gotthold Eisenstein
I agree to the above proposition to refer to Eisenstein as Gotthold Eisenstein, not Ferdinand. His articles (at least the ones I looked at in Crelle's Journal) refer to their author as G. Eisenstein. Compare this to Carl Friedrich Gauss who nobody ever refers to as Johann Gauss, even though his first name was Johann. Apparently using a second name as common name was quite customary in 19th century Germany. So I propose to move this article to Gotthold Eisenstein, and to adapt its contents correspondingly. Marc van Leeuwen (talk) 09:29, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

Quartic reciprocity
The following statement is inconsistent. "but Eisenstein proved several results that eluded even Gauss, such as the theorem on biquadratic reciprocity." If you follow the link to biquadratic reciprocity, it takes you to quadratic reciprocity, which states Gauss was the first one to prove it. Therefore, either the statement is wrong or the link to biquadratic reciprocity is wrong. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.164.217.178 (talk) 13:52, 19 July 2008 (UTC)


 * I fixed it to link to quartic reciprocity instead of quadratic reciprocity Virginia-American (talk) 14:19, 26 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Well spotted! Looks like the original link was made before the quartic reciprocity article existed. Marc van Leeuwen (talk) 13:17, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

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