Talk:Ragsdale conjecture

I have improved and edited the article so that it maintains copyright guidelines. Sorry for the problem. Here is the link. Sr13 (T|C) 06:19, 4 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Confusion

Has this conjecture been disproved or what? ॐ Metta Bubble ^puff 05:54, 13 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I'm adding what I can find. ॐ Metta Bubble ^puff 06:53, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm reluctant to remove the statements saying the conjecture is unsolved. But it is contradictory. ॐ Metta Bubble ^puff 07:01, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Rasgale's bound was disproved by Viro. The open question here is to find a sharper upper bound. shotwell 09:27, 5 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, thanks. So can it be phrased a little clearer or is it just me getting confused? ॐ Metta Bubble ^puff 14:42, 9 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It needs improving. Something like: "Oleg Viro constructed counter-examples to Ragsdale's conjecture in 1979. In 1993, Ilya Itenberg disproved the weaker Petrovsky-Rasgdale conjecture. Finding a sharp upper-bound for the number of even and odd ovals in an algebraic curve is still an open question." Does that sound confusing? This is all far outside my area, so don't trust me too much. shotwell 16:23, 9 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]