George Herbert wrote:
On 3/26/07, Avi <avi_wiki(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
We are quoted in this month's issue of
Focus, the Mathematical Association
of America's newsletter, on page 5, for bringing a source for the term
"spline".
PDF link here:
http://www.maa.org/pubs/march07web.pdf
Ahhhh... Darn it, and that article [[Spline (mathematics)]] sources it
to a much more recent derivation than is correct (see [[Spline
(device)]]), though it's sourced.
*bang head on the wall*
Yep, the work of scholarship is never done... :-)
But I think that's the real beauty of WP, that it's a giant scratchpad
where we all collect notes on what the different sources are saying,
especially those in specialized areas that haven't talked to anybody
outside the specialty in decades. Even the lowly disambiguation pages
are assemblages of multiple meanings that have never been put together
before.
Stan