Talk:Pafnuty Chebyshev

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[edit] Family

One of thirty-six children? All the sources that I've come up with only mention his parents having nine children. Eliezerappleton (talk) 07:02, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Shooting

The article refers to the "theory of shooting". Is this more conventionally known as the "theory of ballistics"? Perhaps there is a subtle difference which I don't know, so I've left it unchanged in my edit today, although I've not heard the term "theory of shooting" in English.
You are right. I just translated the Russian expression "teoriya strel'by". Kgsteffens 14:30, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Transliteration

The german transliteration Tschebyscheff is still in use, it is not obsolete.

Would anybody know the correct pronunciation of Chebyshev? By the cyrillic letters, it would seem as if Chebyshov might be the more correct version to spell it, cf. "Potemkin". pirogo, 2004-Nov-22

IPA: tʃɛ-bɪ-ʃəf
--Gene s 12:51, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)

The third syllable is stressed and pronounced as "of". See the Great Soviet Encyclopedia. --Kgsteffens 14:50, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Conflicting Birthdays

I am not sure but what is Chebyshev's correct birthday? 4th May or 16th May? can anyone correct the error, since this is conflicting information in line 1 and 3 and I am not sure of the correct date.

Done. It's Old Style vs. New Style difference. Mhym 18:42, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Spelling of Name

Just for fun I entered 36 different spellings of his name into Google and tabulated the number of hits. Three forms of the first syllable - Ch, Tch, and Tsch, and twelve forms of the last syllable - shev, sheff, shov, shoff, chev, cheff, chov, choff, schev, scheff, schov and schoff. The middle syllable was eby. Results are in the table below. Then I discovered that the first syllable could also be sh, tsh or kh, the middle syllable could be eby, ebi, ebie, ebe, ebye or eba. Also the last syllable could be shef, shof chef, chof, schef or schof. This gives a total of 648 spellings, and no, I didn't. PAR 03:32, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Chebyshev 1 350 000 Chebychev 126 000 Tchebycheff 45 300
Tchebychev 19 700 Tschebyscheff 13 400 Tchebyshev 12 900
Chebyschev 11 700 Chebycheff 776 Tchebysheff 653
Tchebyscheff 641 Tschebychev 454 Tschebycheff 360
Chebysheff 348 Tschebyshev 228 Chebyshov 158
Tschebysheff 148 Tchebyschev 143 Chebyscheff 104
Tschebyschev 83 Tchebyshov 18 Chebyschoff 9
Tschebyschoff 9 Tchebychoff 8 Chebyshoff 7
Tschebyschov 6 Tchebychov 5 Tchebyschoff 2
Chebychov 1 Chebychoff 1 Tschebyshov 1
Tschebyshoff 1 Tchebyshoff 1 Chebyschov 0
Tschebychov 0 Tschebychoff 0 Tchebyschov 0
You may have missed some, such as bya in the middle [1] or ye or yo near the end [2] [3] or single f at the end [4]. And even these obvious ones leave out popular examples such as Cebysev [5]. Some of these may be errors (and in a few cases someone else with the same name). --Henrygb 22:34, 2 October 2006 (UTC)