Talk:Flatness (mathematics)

Copyright vio

This article is not a copyright violation because the website originally copied the flatness article, of which this info was just split from. Please disregard the warning. Wizard191 (talk) 21:13, 26 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 19 March 2024

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: article redirected to Flat#Mathematics and geometry. I view this discussion as having resulted in a consensus to redirect the title to a DAB page, rather than retaining the article, as participants felt that the article contained little to no content. There was less clear of a consensus as to what the target of the redirect should be: one user proposed Flat#Mathematics and geometry, and another proposed Flatness, but no one responded to either idea besides their respective proposers. Since there's a consensus to redirect in some capacity, I see a WP:BARTENDER close as the best option here; I reviewed the two proposed redirect destinations, and I feel that Flat#Mathematics and geometry is likelier to be helpful to a reader who uses this redirect. (closed by non-admin page mover) ModernDayTrilobite (talk • contribs) 15:02, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Flatness (mathematics) → Flatness (geometry) – Right now this describes the geometric term in the first paragraph but goes on to repeat part of the Flat#Mathematics and geometry or Flatness (disambiguation) disambiguation pages. I suggest moving this to reflect the meaning in geometry, while redirecting Flatness (mathematics) to the Flatness DAB (see also Flat (mathematics), which is also linked from this article). 1234qwer 1234qwer 4 01:34, 19 March 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 05:59, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: WikiProject Mathematics has been notified of this discussion. Favonian (talk) 10:17, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The subject of this article seems to be a particular unicode symbol that might be used somewhere to denote something. I'm unconvinced that this is a real topic. Tito Omburo (talk) 12:12, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I think a bunch of stuff about mechanical engineering got mixed into the pure mathematics somehow. XOR'easter (talk) 15:03, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. The article began with "In mathematics, the flatness of a surface is the degree to which it approximates a mathematical plane," but this degree is nowhere defined. So, I changed this first sentence into "In geometry, flatness is the property of being a flat. D.Lazard (talk) 18:18, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Flat (disambiguation)#Mathematics and geometry, since this article has no more content than this disambiguation page. D.Lazard (talk) 18:18, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Move; don't redirect The people who know what homological algebra is, and could expand this page beyond a stub are often helpless in general Wikipedia procedures. Giving them a blank page to work with overcomes a basic barrier to entry. Likewise, renaming it to "geometry" from "mathematics" raises the barrier for the young school student who might want to post OR about flat things learned in high-school math class. Best of both worlds. Changed my mind; redirect per D. Lazard. I copied the single sentence about flatness in homological algebra to the article on Abelian category, which seems like a fine home for the single-sentence definition. 67.198.37.16 (talk) 06:05, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
This does not seem to be the correct place for the entry, as tensor products only exist in something like a monoidal category, and the article on abelian categories does not really talk about tensor products either. I would kind of expect Flat morphism to have some content on the abstract concept, however, which is currently not the case. 1234qwer 1234qwer 4 23:18, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Flatness (disambiguation), merging the current content into Flat (mathematics). There's a lot of geometry in flatness deviation. See also flat space. fgnievinski (talk) 03:51, 27 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisting comment: Redirect to Flat or Flatness (or a section)? —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 05:59, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.