Talk:Calculus/Archive 10
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No integral calculus page?
There is a nice article for differential calculus, which describes it as a branch of calculus and gives some history, but there is no corresponding page for integral calculus. There is only a redirect to integral. Why then is differential calculus not a redirect to derivative? 121.216.128.241 (talk) 10:59, 9 February 2018 (UTC)
- Hi. Your best bet at finding editors who are interested and know enough about this subject is at Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics. Perhaps bring this up at their talk page (Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics). Bennv3771 (talk) 11:57, 9 February 2018 (UTC)
- (edit conflict) "Integral calculus" is much less used than "differential calculus". This is probably the reason for not having Integral calculus. Also, having a separate article needs to have content that is not covered by the target of the redirect. It seems that this is not the case here. D.Lazard (talk) 12:39, 9 February 2018 (UTC)
- I have started a discussion relating to this comment at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics#Articles on "differential calculus" and "integral calculus". --Trovatore (talk) 19:11, 27 December 2021 (UTC)
"More citation needed" rationale
User:XOR'easter, I disagree with your revert. If the content is "general expositions of standard material that's in a zillion books", why don't we cite the material from the book itself? That's far better than no citations. I do agree though that me drive-by tagging isn't gonna help the article that much, so I'm gonna dig up math textbooks and cite the article with them. Hopefully that would make the article much better in quality. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 02:50, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
- I simply don't think that slapping a banner on top of a page that reads basically fine for the first several sections is helpful guidance. XOR'easter (talk) 02:52, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
- I've gone through and added several footnotes. A little more could be done in that vein, perhaps, though at the moment I'm wondering if portions of the as-yet-unfootnoted text are actually too detailed for this article and should be cut instead. I expect that bits and pieces were added along the way by people who wanted to say everything they knew about integrals, without stopping to think if those remarks belonged in an overview like this article. XOR'easter (talk) 03:32, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
- Agreed, we should cut down on irrelevant details. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 03:33, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
- I've gone through and added several footnotes. A little more could be done in that vein, perhaps, though at the moment I'm wondering if portions of the as-yet-unfootnoted text are actually too detailed for this article and should be cut instead. I expect that bits and pieces were added along the way by people who wanted to say everything they knew about integrals, without stopping to think if those remarks belonged in an overview like this article. XOR'easter (talk) 03:32, 26 July 2022 (UTC)