1:17 AM
@AloizioMacedo (1) I proposed a tag-wiki entry for a grad-curl-div tag, and this was meant to include some generalizations of the gradient, e.g., to functional analysis, but this could certainly be narrowed. (In fact my original intended scope for gradient was just the vector calculus gradient and its generalization to Riemannian geometry, but some other users' comments convinced me to broaden it.)
@AloizioMacedo (3) Yes, in practice these three operators are usually discussed together, but moreover---and unlike, e.g., determinant-trace-rank---they are a canonical trio (at least in dimension 3, which is the setting where one usually first does vector calculus); see my earlier comment supporting the particular order grad-curl-div of the operator names in the proposed tag for a short explanation of this.
(The trace and determinant are part of a canonical family: One could analogously subsume the trace and determinant in a hypothetical symmetric-functions-of-eigenvalues-tag, but that change would make the tag unrecognizable to people first learning about those operators.)
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7:00 AM
I will just add that even if grad-curl-div is crated, a typical question about gradient will still have vector-analysis tag in addition to this tag.
Considering that some doubts have been raised (and that the answer has been edited a few times), I will ask this again:
2 days ago, by Martin Sleziak
There is no reasonable way of distingushing whether the upvotes count for the most recent suggestion or the upvoter agreed with the previous one but wouldn't agree with the new one.
2 days ago, by Alexander Gruber
My view is we're pretty much ready to implement the change, I don't think a meta post is necessary, but if someone writes one I'll wait for the upvotes before making the synonyms.
2 days ago, by Alexander Gruber
Though if someone would like to write one in order to recruit people to help move over grad questions from vector-analysis, I've no problem with that
Maybe the new question would end up with no feedback from the community, maybe it would get some attention.
And I also understand that in some situations somebody has to make a decision (typically the mods) - if it's unlikely that some reasonable consensus will be achieved on meta.
As a side note: If compared with MathOverflow, on this site the tag-related issues are typically discussed on meta, on MO changes to tags are most often done without any previous discussion. (Of course, the way it's done on MO also has it's advantages. If things are discussed on meta first, that usually slows down any changes to tag system.)
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8:18 AM
@MartinSleziak deleted-tag The tag wilsons-theorem has been removed: math.stackexchange.com/posts/3462324/revisions
@MartinSleziak deleted-tag The tag circle-inversion has been removed: math.stackexchange.com/posts/3446824/revisions
The queries which also shows editors who added/removed the tag: data.stackexchange.com/math/query/1105163/… data.stackexchange.com/math/query/1038474/…
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1:16 PM
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Maybe this should be in meta? I'm not clear. Seems highly relevant in any case, but refile or delete if I've erred again. The polymath projects have been running for many years now. I have not been involved in any way, but I hear about them here and there from time to time and in news and blogs ...
The same user posted recently on meta: Informally, would anyone be interested in starting a Polymath Projects type site?
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user12692
@Jack It is explicitly mentioned in the tag-info: "Consider a more specific tag instead: (real-analysis), (complex-analysis), (functional-analysis), (fourier-analysis), (measure-theory), (calculus-of-variations), etc. "
Yes, there was something on meta. (Possibly even several discussions.) I can see that you find some post yourself.
If you look at the posts linked there you can see some other posts: Why is the tag (analysis) useful? and Should the (analysis) tag be deprecated?.
user12692
user12692
6:03 PM
"Terminology varies by country" as mentioned in this answer: math.meta.stackexchange.com/a/15208/9464
Conversation about (analysis) tag in this room from 2012: chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3740/conversation/analysis-tag
user12692
I learned about that from here: Is there a way to search for a question (or an answer) that mentions a tag?
Asaf Karagila mentioned (analysis) as an example when he asked this question: Can we please have a “deprecated tag” feature? But I do not know whether he planned to do something further with that.
I guess this might be more-or-less all I can say about analysis. (Although it look like a terrible linkfest.)
user12692
6:54 PM
BTW you could have simply checked the source of my message to see that: chat.stackexchange.com/messages/52837526/history
That might be useful also when you see something else in chat and you are curious how it was typeset in that message: How to view/copy source of a message in chat?
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