Talk:List of formulas in elementary geometry
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editThe article is incomplete at best. There are many other "elementary" Geometry formulas, and many more relations. For example, things like the angle bisector theorem, or anything about medians or altitudes. All of that is "elementary geometry".
The article titled Geometric formulas is at best quite weak. Is it worth developing? Michael Hardy (talk) 17:41, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
- It is not only weak, it is an orphan. I have just tagged is as orphan. D.Lazard (talk) 18:27, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
- I don't think that it's worth developing. It's not clear what the scope of the list is. What should and should not eventually be included? The Riemann-Roch theorem? The word "formula" in the title suggests to me that it was not written by a mathematician. But if one non-mathematician found it valuable to create this list, then maybe others would find such a list useful too. Mgnbar (talk) 19:52, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
- I think there is scope for a reference article for non-mathematicians. Something like Table of formulae in elementary geometry, that could include things like the volume of a cone, area of a trapezoid, etc. There are standard tables like this in print encyclopedias too. (It's also possible that such an article already exists, and this one should be redirected there.) Sławomir Biały (talk) 19:59, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
- A Table of formulae in elementary geometry could be useful if fairly complete. For example the numerous formulas for the triangle may be found in Triangle article, but they are mixed with explanations. For someone which needs to retrieve a forgiven formula, consulting a list of formulas is better than extracting it from the middle of the explanations in a detailed article. For coherency of Wikipedia, such an article would better named List of formulas in elementary geometry. We could rename Geometric formulas in this way and tag it as a stub (to be expanded). D.Lazard (talk) 20:49, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
- I think there is scope for a reference article for non-mathematicians. Something like Table of formulae in elementary geometry, that could include things like the volume of a cone, area of a trapezoid, etc. There are standard tables like this in print encyclopedias too. (It's also possible that such an article already exists, and this one should be redirected there.) Sławomir Biały (talk) 19:59, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
- I don't think that it's worth developing. It's not clear what the scope of the list is. What should and should not eventually be included? The Riemann-Roch theorem? The word "formula" in the title suggests to me that it was not written by a mathematician. But if one non-mathematician found it valuable to create this list, then maybe others would find such a list useful too. Mgnbar (talk) 19:52, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
I stumbled on this in search of formulas I could copy and paste, as an editor/contributor (mostly for Wikiversity). I agree that Geometric formulas has little value. Anybody with the wherewithal to find this doesn't need the information. But people like me have a need for simple formulas that can be copied, pasted and edited. It's a pain to write Latex from scratch. Also, a list of ready-made mathematical formulas not hidden in weird tables will help entice experts to become wiki editors and writers. I like to open, copy and paste. Informing the reader that 'A' means area just clutters up the code. --guyvan52 (talk) 22:54, 5 December 2013 (UTC)
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