Talk:Timeline of algebra

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I am thinking of renaming Timeline of Algebra into "Algebra Timeline. It should therefore be able to catch the attention of more that look at "Algebra." Would you recommend this change or reject it?--Dale S. Satre 22:47, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

For information: see also this entry on the Help Desk page for 17 September 2008.--92.41.182.34 (talk) 05:57, 18 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This is not a timeline about algebra

I do not know what is the subject of this timeline, but it is certainly not algebra: most of the entries do not rely in any way to algebra but are results in arithmetic, geometry and analysis. In particular, after Galois, none of the important results in algebra is cited nor any of the main algebraists. For example, Cayley, Kronecker, Dedekind, Hilbert (Hilbert's basis theorem and Hilbert's Nullstellensatz), Noether, Macaulay (Elimination theory), van der Waerden (Modern algebra treatise), Quillen-Suslin theorem, Feit-Thompson theorem and its recent formal proof by computer. This list is far to be complete. Even Galois is wrongly presented. He has never worked in abstract algebra, which did not exist at that time. He worked on the theory of equations and has introduced the theory of finite fields (together with Gauss) and that of groups (the word "group" is the word that he used for this notion). D.Lazard (talk) 11:43, 25 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]