Talk:Contributions of Leonhard Euler to mathematics

This page is a bad idea for many reasons. Since it contains no more content than the section in Leonhard Euler, linking here from that page fools readers who expect to find out more. It is also unmaintainable -- who is going to update one page with changes done to the other? If someone greatly expands this page -- fine, but then someone should do it now. It serves no good purpose as a placeholder in its current state.

I don't think the choice of topic is a good one for an article either, since it is itself an overview and as such duplicates the purpose of the parent article. Maybe specific pages on contributions to more narrow areas like analysis, number theory, etc, would be better (we could think of Basel problem and Seven Bridges of Königsberg as examples). But again, someone should write the articles first, and actually make them long (and different) enough to warrant their own pages. Fredrik Johansson 16:57, 11 October 2006 (UTC)Reply