- Comment in favor of Keep Both . DexDor, first, thank you for welcoming me! First and foremost, I should mention that I am a Pure Mathematician by profession. As logic is fundamental to all of mathematics, I will try to make yet again another argument without rigorous logical prove as understanding it limits only to Mathematicians. The example that I gave with the Pythagorean Theorem is in a category of Euclidean Plane Geometry, which is a subcategory of Elementary Geometry which is a subcategory of Geometry which is a subcategory of Mathematics. Of course, in itself is a theorem with a simple proof given by Pythagoras more than 2000 years ago, now there is hundreds of proofs. At the time this was an absolute breakthrough in mathematics. But the semantics of categorizing it in Mathematical Works is irrefutable. Now, again with very simple logic “Mathematics Works” and “Work about Mathematics” are in NO way equivalent statements. In fact, there is a one way implication, EVERY Mathematical Work is also a Work about Mathematics, however NOT every Work about Mathematics is a Mathematical Work! As an example, for simplicity, a Calculus book is a Mathematical work but it is ALSO Work about Mathematics but a biography of Leibniz and Newton with the famous debate of who invented Calculus, whose notation was better, was it completely independent work or is there a conspiracy theory,… is a Work about Mathematics but NOT Mathematical Work! Mathematical Work MUST be Professional in it’s field but Work about Mathematics does NOT have to be NECESSARILY professional in it’s field!! This generalizes to any fied not just Mathematics as the logic is identical. So if the two are merged reasoning “there is little difference if any” is absolutely unacceptable!!! With that logic "apple" and "fruit" are one and the same!!!=) Tpetrosi (talk) 23:51, 12 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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