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== [[Shapley–Folkman lemma]] ==

Hello Kiefer. Congrats on this article, which seems very well done! I gather it has been nominated for GA, a process I know little about. If I'm allowed to give an unstructured comment, I'd say that it's very good right up to the point where it's trying to explain the economic significance of the result. Maybe a further sentence or two would supply the final motivation. (It points over to [[General equilibrium theory]] as the main article, but that article doesn't provide much illumination). "The derivation of these results in general form has been one of the major achievements of postwar economic theory". Hmm.. It suggests that the theorem is a success because it has been able to get into textbooks. Except for that minor disappointment, I am happy to see this work, which is well-motivated.  The name of the article is not easy to type because it contains a funny dash. Perhaps a redirect could be created using a normal hyphen. [[User:EdJohnston|EdJohnston]] ([[User talk:EdJohnston|talk]]) 02:52, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

:Dear Ed,

:Thanks for your encouraging words. In fact, I nominated the article for good article (GA) status, to get some comments on how to improve it (following helpful feedback from the peer-review process): I hope that it was okay for me to nominate the article for GA status. (I know that I cannot review it for GA status.)

:Your specific comments are also useful. I shall try to provide some more context. The quote from Guesnerie is there because it provides an overall evaluation, and because Guesnerie has been one of the world's leading mathematical economists (e.g. a President of the Econometric Society).

:I don't like Wikipedia's policy of preferring large dashes (which don't appear on my keyboard) over small dashes. (Before, on Windows IE, I couldn't see the difference when I was editing.) There is a redirect, '''[[Shapley-Folkman lemma]]''', as you suggested.

:Thanks again for your great suggestions.

:Best regards, [[User:Kiefer.Wolfowitz|Kiefer.Wolfowitz]] ([[User talk:Kiefer.Wolfowitz#top|talk]]) 09:03, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

::Following your suggestions, I wrote this more friendly version. Thanks again. (I'm sorry for forgetting to credit you in the comments.) Best regards, [[User:Kiefer.Wolfowitz|Kiefer.Wolfowitz]] ([[User talk:Kiefer.Wolfowitz#top|talk]]) 20:47, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

===Mathematical economics===
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[[Image:Kenneth Arrow, Stanford University.jpg|thumb|alt=Picture of Kenneth Arrow|[[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences|Nobel laureate]] [[Kenneth Arrow]] encouraged Ross&nbsp;M. Starr to study the approximate [[convex set|convexity]] of [[Minkowski addition|Minkowski averages]]. Starr was enrolled in Arrow's graduate course in advanced mathematical economics at [[Stanford University]] while he was still an undergraduate.<ref name="StarrArrow"/>]]
{{Main|General equilibrium theory}}
{{See also|Economic equilibrium|Mathematical economics|Kakutani fixed point theorem}}

The [[convex set|non-convexity]] of the Minkowski sum of possibly non-convex sets is important in the [[microeconomics]] of [[budget set|consumption]] and [[production set|production]]. Non-convex sets are widely associated with [[market failure]]s. Indeed, in the era before Starr's paper, non–convex sets seemed to stump economists from proving that that, with several consumers and several goods, [[supply and demand]] could be "balanced" — in economic terms, so that a [[economic equilibrium|market equilibrium]] exists. The study of economic equilibria of complicated markets occurs  as the "[[general equilibrium theory|theory of general equilibrium]]", perhaps the most mathematically advanced branch of [[mathematical economics]]. 

Before Starr's paper, [[Kenneth Arrow|Arrow]] and [[Gérard Debreu]]  [[Arrow–Debreu model|proved the existence of general equilibria]] by invoking [[Shizuo Kakutani|Kakutani's]] [[Kakutani fixed point theorem|theorem]] on the [[fixed point theorem|fixed point]]s of a [[hemicontinuity|continuous]] [[multivalued function|function]] from a [[compact space|compact]], convex set into itself. In the Arrow-Debreu approach, convexity is essential, because such fixed–point theorems are inapplicable to non–convex sets: The rotation of the [[unit circle]]  by&nbsp;90&nbsp;degrees lacks fixed points, although this rotation is a continuous transformation of a compact set into itself; although compact, the unit circle is non–convex<!-- , while the [[unit disk]] is convex -->. 

In his paper, Starr studied the general equilibria of the artificial economy in which [[convex preferences|non–convex preferences]] were replaced by their [[convex hull]]s. Starr was investigating the existence of [[General equilibrium theory#Nonconvexities in large economies|economic equilibria]] when some [[convex preferences|consumer preferences]] need not be [[convex set|convex]].<ref name="s69"/> Applying the Shapley–Folkman lemma, {{harvtxt|Starr|1969}} proved that the "convexified" economy has general equilibria that are closely approximated by some "quasi–equilbrium" of the original economy. Using his corollary, Starr derived a [[upper bound|bound]] on the distance from a "quasi–equilbrium" to an equilibrium of a "convexified" economy, when the number of agents exceeds the dimension of the goods.<ref name="s69"> {{citation
 | last = Starr | first = Ross&nbsp;M.
 | issue = 1
 | journal = Econometrica
 | pages = 25–38
 | title = Quasi–equilibria in markets with non–convex preferences (Appendix&nbsp;2: The Shapley–Folkman theorem, pp.&nbsp;35–37)
 | volume = 37
 | year = 1969
 | jstor=1909201}}.</ref>
With his&nbsp;1969 paper, Starr extended the scope of general equilibrium theory beyond convex sets:
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Thus, in the aggregate, the discrepancy between an allocation in the fictitious economy generated by [taking the convex hulls of all of the consumption and production sets] and some allocation in the real economy is bounded in a way that is independent of the number of economic agents. Therefore, the average agent experiences a deviation from intended actions that vanishes in significance as the number of agents goes to infinity.<ref>Page&nbsp;44: {{cite book|first1=Jerry|last1=Green|first2=Walter&nbsp;P.|last2=Heller|chapter=1 Mathematical analysis and convexity with applications to economics|pages=pp.&nbsp;15–52|title=Handbook of mathematical economics, Volume&nbsp;I|editor=[[Kenneth Arrow|Kenneth&nbsp;Joseph Arrow]] and Michael&nbsp;D. Intriligator| series=Handbooks in Economics|volume=1|publisher=North–Holland Publishing&nbsp;Co.|location= Amsterdam|year=1981|isbn=0-444-86126-2|MR=634800}}</ref>
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Starr began his research while he was an undergraduate at [[Stanford University]], where he had enrolled in the (graduate) advanced mathematical economics course of [[Kenneth Arrow|Kenneth&nbsp;J. Arrow]], who provided him with an extensive and annotated reading list.<ref name="StarrArrow" >Pages 217–218:
{{cite book|
| chapter = Exchange in a network of trading posts
| last1 = Starr|first1=R.&nbsp;M.|last2=Stinchcombe|first2=M.&nbsp;B.
| title=Markets, Information and Uncertainty: Essays in Economic Theory in Honor of Kenneth&nbsp;J. Arrow
| editor=Graciela Chichilnisky
| pages=217–234 |
| publisher=Cambridge University Press|
| location=Cambridge| year = 1999
| doi=10.2277/0521553555
| isbn=9780521082884
}}</ref>
The Shapley–Folkman results are named after [[Lloyd Shapley]] and [[Jon Folkman]], who proved both the Shapley–Folkman lemma and a weaker version of the Shapley–Folkman–Starr theorem in an unpublished report, "Starr's problem" (1966), which was cited by  {{harvtxt|Ross&nbsp;M. Starr|1969}}.<ref name="s69"/>.  Before Starr's work, the approximate convexity of sums of non–convex sets had been discussed in the ''[[Journal of Political Economy]]'' from&nbsp;1959 to&nbsp;1961 by F.&nbsp;M.&nbsp;Bator, M.&nbsp;J.&nbsp;Farrell, [[Tjalling Koopmans|T.&nbsp;C.&nbsp;Koopmans]], and T.&nbsp;J.&nbsp;Rothenberg<!-- Starr's citation mis-spells "T."&nbsp;as&nbsp;"J." -->; these earlier economics papers lacked the [[theorem|mathematical propositions]] and [[mathematical proof|proof]]s of Starr's paper.<ref name="s69"/>
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===Textbooks===
Please see the article talk page for more. Following EdJohnston's mention of textbooks, I noted five graduate books that could be removed, without reducing the content of the article. (I listed them to encourage readers to use the library.) [[User:Kiefer.Wolfowitz|Kiefer.Wolfowitz]] ([[User talk:Kiefer.Wolfowitz#top|talk]]) 21:14, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

== [[Shapley–Folkman lemma]] nomination ==

Hi, I started a thorough review of your nomination. I think I will do the rest of the article on Tuesday. If you want you can already work on the points I mentioned or wait til I'm done. Best, [[User:Jakob.scholbach|Jakob.scholbach]] ([[User talk:Jakob.scholbach|talk]]) 10:27, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

:Hi Jakob! What a great (and early) Yuletide/New Year's present! I have responded to a few of your great comments on the page. I really am glad that you volunteered to provide a GA-audit of the article. Best regards, [[User:Kiefer.Wolfowitz|Kiefer.Wolfowitz]] ([[User talk:Kiefer.Wolfowitz#top|talk]]) 12:24, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

::I caught a cold, so will review the rest of the article early next week, I hope. [[User:Jakob.scholbach|Jakob.scholbach]] ([[User talk:Jakob.scholbach|talk]]) 23:15, 22 December 2010 (UTC)


:::Thanks again for your efforts. I shall be unable to resume editing for the next two weeks, though, so don't worry about any delay. Get well soon! [[User:Kiefer.Wolfowitz|Kiefer.Wolfowitz]] ([[User talk:Kiefer.Wolfowitz#top|talk]]) 12:20, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
== DYK nomination of Graciela Chichilnisky ==

[[Image:Symbol question.svg|25px]] Hello! Your submission of [[Graciela Chichilnisky]] at the [[Template talk:DYK|Did You Know nominations page]] has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath '''{{T:TDYK|Graciela Chichilnisky|your nomination's entry}}''' and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! <!--Template:DYKproblem--> [[User:PM800|PM800]] ([[User talk:PM800|talk]]) 22:25, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
: Thanks! I tried to fix up the suggestion. I think David has some good ideas, which are being discussed there. [[User:Kiefer.Wolfowitz|Kiefer.Wolfowitz]] ([[User talk:Kiefer.Wolfowitz#top|talk]]) 00:49, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
== [[Graciela Chichilnisky]] and DYK decadence ==

[http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:Did_you_know&curid=972034&diff=409467696&oldid=409467326] - I don't feel comfortable making the decision myself since I commented on the article so someone uninvolved should do it, but hopefully the comment will make it go through.  General recommendation when nominating econ or math related articles though - it's always nice to have a graph illustrating the basic concept. It's not always obvious what that should be and mathematical graphs are not always "sexy" enough compared to images that can be included for other kinds of articles, but it can only help.<small><span style="border:1px solid black;padding:1px;">[[User:Volunteer Marek|<span style="color:blue;background:orange;font-family:sans-serif;">'''&nbsp;Volunteer Marek&nbsp;'''</span>]]</span></small> 01:26, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

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And I very much agree with this [http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:Did_you_know&curid=972034&diff=409468373&oldid=409467984] but that important issue should be brought up here [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Did_you_know].<small><span style="border:1px solid black;padding:1px;">[[User:Volunteer Marek|<span style="color:blue;background:orange;font-family:sans-serif;">'''&nbsp;Volunteer Marek&nbsp;'''</span>]]</span></small> 01:28, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

: Thanks, for your support, and careful correction of the "censorship" red herring. 
: I would not want DYK to feature a tragedy about an african-american rapper who gets killed while trying to play the part of some racist fantasy about african sexuality and criminality, particularly when that racist fantasy is being sold by white-owned corporations to meet the demand of middle class young punks, e.g. in Sweden, where you can hear rap songs with "n*gger" at McDonalds. 
:A woman being hospitalized for trying to set a record of sexual acts on camera is just as revolting; we don't have to promote such [[Sexy Cora|self-destructive and gruesome tragedies]] sold to men wanting to [[sperm competition|trigger the metabolic pathways]] of our ancestors, [[William Butler Yeats#Nineteen hundred and nineteen|who were but weasels f*cking in a hole]]. [[User:Kiefer.Wolfowitz|Kiefer.Wolfowitz]] ([[User talk:Kiefer.Wolfowitz#top|talk]]) 02:18, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
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::Dear Marek!
::Please send the submission ahead. The deadline is coming, and you are not in any conflict of interest. Observers are supposed to polish the submissions, as you did very well! [[User:Kiefer.Wolfowitz|Kiefer.Wolfowitz]] ([[User talk:Kiefer.Wolfowitz#top|talk]]) 22:26, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
:::Thanks! [[User:Kiefer.Wolfowitz|Kiefer.Wolfowitz]] ([[User talk:Kiefer.Wolfowitz#top|talk]]) 20:10, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

== DYK nomination of Henry Mann ==

[[Image:Symbol question.svg|25px]] Hello! Your submission of [[Henry Mann]] at the [[Template talk:DYK|Did You Know nominations page]] has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath '''{{T:TDYK|Henry Mann|your nomination's entry}}''' and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! <!--Template:DYKproblem-->  —[[User:David Eppstein|David Eppstein]] ([[User talk:David Eppstein|talk]]) 17:42, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

== Re:[[There Are More Things]] ==

I've fixed some of the stuff you pointed out — please see my comment on the nomination page. Regards, <span style="color:purple;">♠</span>[[User:TomasBat|<span style="font-family:Old English Text MT;"><span style="color:green;">TomasBat</span></span>]] 02:37, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
:Hi Tomas! I liked the article, especially since I have been a Borges fan since 10th grade. :)
:Many of my comments should have gone to the article talk page, but sloth has been one of my deadliest sins for a long time. I'm glad that you found some worth considering.
:I'll look at the article.
:Best regards, [[User:Kiefer.Wolfowitz|Kiefer.Wolfowitz]] ([[User talk:Kiefer.Wolfowitz#top|talk]]) 02:46, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
== Another economist ==

You might be interested in saving [[Roman Frydman]] from deletion by adding some sources and then unprodding. (It's clear just looking at citation counts that he should be kept, but that's not good enough to remove the prod — we need sources.) —[[User:David Eppstein|David Eppstein]] ([[User talk:David Eppstein|talk]]) 08:28, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

:Thanks for the heads up, David. In this case, the article is just a sentence. NYU's social-science departments were the most improved in the USA (and maybe the world) in the last 20 years, and I suppose that any member of the Dept. of William Baumol and Andrew Schotter and (Jesse Benhabib?)/Michael Woodford (and whatever heroes are there now) must be very good indeed. Alas, I have even less time, and no knowledge of him, so I won't help here. Best regards, [[User:Kiefer.Wolfowitz|Kiefer.Wolfowitz]] ([[User talk:Kiefer.Wolfowitz#top|talk]]) 11:09, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

::Ok, I think I found enough on my own to save the article. —[[User:David Eppstein|David Eppstein]] ([[User talk:David Eppstein|talk]]) 18:59, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

:::Well done! [[User:Kiefer.Wolfowitz|Kiefer.Wolfowitz]] ([[User talk:Kiefer.Wolfowitz#top|talk]]) 19:32, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

== DYK for Graciela Chichilnisky ==

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|text = On [[Wikipedia:Recent_additions#27 January 2011|27 January 2011]], '''[[:Template:Did you know|Did you know?]]''' was updated with a fact from the article '''''[[Graciela Chichilnisky]]''''', which you recently nominated. The fact was ''... that '''[[Graciela Chichilnisky]]''', who proposed the [[Kyoto Protocol]]'s market for [[carbon credit]] [[emissions trading|trading]], obtained her PhDs in [[mathematics]] and [[economics]] without ever having been an [[undergraduate education#United States system|undergraduate]]?'' If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the [[:Template talk:Did you know|Did you know? talk page]].
}}<!-- Template:UpdatedDYKNom -->  —[[User:HJ Mitchell|<span style="color:Teal; font-family:Tahoma;">'''HJ&nbsp;Mitchell'''</span>]] &#124; [[User talk:HJ Mitchell|<span style="color:Navy; font-family:Times New Roman;">Penny for your thoughts? </span>]]  00:03, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
== Help ==

Can you see/comment on the disruptive user and his tag team [[User_talk:HJ_Mitchell#editor_issues]]([[User:Lihaas|Lihaas]] ([[User talk:Lihaas|talk]]) 21:29, 20 January 2011 (UTC)).

:Hi Lihaas, 
:I am sorry to read that you are being troubled by a disruptive editor (again). 
: However, I had trouble understanding what was going on at that link. I shall try to make sense of it again. 
:Please contact me whenever there is a problem: There are many good administrators associated with the mathematics and statistics projects and with other pages I've edited, to whom I may refer you. 
:Best regards, [[User:Kiefer.Wolfowitz|Kiefer.Wolfowitz]] ([[User talk:Kiefer.Wolfowitz#top|talk]]) 23:16, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

::I happened to see the RFA about you. Just take it easy. You are in the position of somebody adding incidents of Idaho potatoes, who is citing accounts that only mention "Idaho tubers". It may be that the page on Idaho potatoes has consensus that mention of tubers is insufficient, and that such an editor may be guilty of original research, perhaps even synthesis doing such additions. Dealing with urban/urbane ignoramuses who cannot recognize terrorism or potatoes would make such pages intolerable for me: Thus, I wouldn't be able to edit on such pages.
::On the other hand, I imagine that the only way WP can function is by some consensus, e.g. that an outside source using the word "terrorism" is necessary --- this would avoid fights about inclusion, and let WP editing be productive.
::I wrote an outside comment that the complaint should be revised to avoid attacking you as a general editor, because you have been productive and reasonable in my experience.
::Sincerely, [[User:Kiefer.Wolfowitz|Kiefer.Wolfowitz]] ([[User talk:Kiefer.Wolfowitz#top|talk]]) 11:38, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

thanks.[[User:Lihaas|Lihaas]] ([[User talk:Lihaas|talk]]) 11:32, 28 January 2011 (UTC)).

:::I reread my statement above too, and it could have been etter as well ;)([[User:Lihaas|Lihaas]] ([[User talk:Lihaas|talk]]) 15:35, 28 January 2011 (UTC)).

== DYK nomination of Andreu Mas-Colell ==

[[Image:Symbol question.svg|25px]] Hello! Your submission of [[Andreu Mas-Colell]] at the [[Template talk:DYK|Did You Know nominations page]] has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath '''{{T:TDYK|Andreu Mas-Colell|your nomination's entry}}''' and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! <!--Template:DYKproblem--> [[User:Jappalang|Jappalang]] ([[User talk:Jappalang|talk]]) 01:37, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

::Thanks for the notice, Jappalang. I revised the hook to meet your concerns. Thanks again. Best regards, [[User:Kiefer.Wolfowitz|Kiefer.Wolfowitz]] ([[User talk:Kiefer.Wolfowitz#top|talk]]) 09:29, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
::: Hi, Kiefer.  The hook now seems clear, but there is no specific cite to the information that supports the hook; i.e. no cite at the end of "... from differential topology and differential geometry."  Furthermore, the ''The Theory of general economic equilibrium'' and ''Foundations of the Theory of General Equilibrium'' are used as references without page numbers (although it seems obvious to me that the theme of the books support the information they are cited to).  For the "differential topology and differential geometry" cites, can specific page numbers be supplied (from the Conclusion chapter or somewhere)?  [[User:Jappalang|Jappalang]] ([[User talk:Jappalang|talk]]) 01:35, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
::::I provided page references in the article, and then provided a synopsis with page references in the lead, to make life easier for you and DYK readers. My referencing has redundancies, but I don't have time to do a better job now, alas. Thanks. [[User:Kiefer.Wolfowitz|Kiefer.Wolfowitz]] ([[User talk:Kiefer.Wolfowitz#top|talk]]) 09:55, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
== Citations for List of Ukrainians ==

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Thank you for volunteering the statistical data purported to support the claims made by other editors in [[List of Ukrainians]]. 

Please provide the references to this data in the introductory section of this list, where the citations have been requested in January 2011.  <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/98.234.208.200|98.234.208.200]] ([[User talk:98.234.208.200|talk]]) 10:50, 24 January 2011 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->

:I asked you to stop making personal attacks, but you continue to accuse the editors of the list of bad-faith editing. I gave you the page number to a standard book, for one statement that the urban areas of Ukraine had mixed populations. You cannot find this book in Ukraine, or in articles on Ukrainian history? Fulfilling your request seems like a waste of my time, given your tendentious editing and edit warring.
:All Ukrainians and Poles and Russian (known to me) regard the history of the the borders of Ukraine and Poland —and of Russia and Ukraine — and of Poland and Germany— and of Germany and the Czech Republic —with shudders of horror, at the behavior all the parties in the past. Just as Americans regard the border with Mexico with horror, and Canadians regard the Halifax ethnic-cleansing of the future Cajun French with horror. There is blood on every border of the world, and all civilized people respect that there is some ethnic, religious, and "national" (whatever that is) diversity  in every country, particularly near the boarders with other countries.
::(I'll mention that none of these 1945-1948 conflicts have had any history of war or terrorism, which makes them useful and obvious counterexamples to frequent (idiotic) claims about the "causes" of  attacks on Israeli civilians. [[User:Kiefer.Wolfowitz|Kiefer.Wolfowitz]] ([[User talk:Kiefer.Wolfowitz#top|talk]]) 02:41, 25 January 2011 (UTC))
:Ukraine has plenty to be proud of without denying the contributions of other groups to its history: Just think about what you have eaten in the last day, and tell me that you haven't benefited from the contributions of Poles and Jews and Germans and Russians (and Tatars ...) to Ukrainian history!  Please take it easy, and stop the personal attacks.
:Sincerely, [[User:Kiefer.Wolfowitz|Kiefer.Wolfowitz]] ([[User talk:Kiefer.Wolfowitz#top|talk]]) 20:09, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

:::I did not see your personal attack "comisar-stein", which is grounds for your immediate blocking (ethnic, religious, unsubstantiated political): Today (14:25, 30 January 2011 (UTC)), I am relieved that you have been blocked.
:::Never contact me again.
:::[[User:Kiefer.Wolfowitz|Kiefer.Wolfowitz]] ([[User talk:Kiefer.Wolfowitz#top|talk]]) 12:24, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
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== Colorful signature ==

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Inspired by Volunteer Marek's signature, I created a blue-and-gold signature, honoring [[Flag_of_Sweden|Sweden]], [[Flag_of_Ukraine#Colors|Ukraine]], the [[University of Michigan]], and even [[Euclid_High_School#cite_ref-Ohio_High_School_Athletic_Association_member_directory_0-2|Euclid High School]].

Is my signature too big? <span style="border:1px solid black;padding:1px;">[[User:Kiefer.Wolfowitz|<span style="color:blue;background:yellow;font-family:sans-serif;">'''&nbsp;Kiefer'''.'''Wolfowitz&nbsp;'''</span>]]</span>

Should it be smaller? <small><span style="border:1px solid black;padding:1px;">[[User:Kiefer.Wolfowitz|<span style="color:blue;background:yellow;font-family:sans-serif;">'''&nbsp;Kiefer'''.'''Wolfowitz&nbsp;'''</span>]]</span></small>

:I prefer smaller. <small><span style="border:1px solid black;padding:1px;">[[User:Kiefer.Wolfowitz|<span style="color:blue;background:yellow;font-family:sans-serif;">'''&nbsp;Kiefer'''.'''Wolfowitz&nbsp;'''</span>]]</span></small> 23:33, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

:This one's good, though I think Sweden would probably be the other way around. Thanks!<small><span style="border:1px solid black;padding:1px;">[[User:Volunteer Marek|<span style="color:blue;background:orange;font-family:sans-serif;">'''&nbsp;Volunteer Marek&nbsp;'''</span>]]</span></small> 00:23, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

::Perhaps my fondness for the [[University of Michigan]] is comparable to my fondness for Sweden? (I restored the Talk button, also, to help newbies find their way.) <small><span style="border:1px solid black;padding:1px;">[[User:Kiefer.Wolfowitz|<span style="color:blue;background:yellow;">&nbsp;'''Kiefer'''.'''Wolfowitz'''&nbsp;</span>]]</span></small>&nbsp;([[User talk:Kiefer.Wolfowitz#top|talk]]) 00:34, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
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== Search for painted turtle pictures ==

From TCO's talk page (copied, to help me remember. <small><span style="border:1px solid black;padding:1px;">[[User:Kiefer.Wolfowitz|<span style="color:blue;background:yellow;font-family:sans-serif;">'''&nbsp;Kiefer'''.'''Wolfowitz&nbsp;'''</span>]]</span></small> 00:09, 1 February 2011 (UTC)):

Can you do a Google search in Swedish (or German if you are) and see if you find an image or even a specimen of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Painted_turtle#fossil_picture fossil of painted turle, Chrysemys picta]?  It's an American turtle.  But it is very common and maybe trying a different language helps.[[User:TCO|TCO]] ([[User talk:TCO#top|talk]]) 20:03, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
== [[:Image:Shapley–Folkman lemma.svg|Image]] from [[Shapley–Folkman lemma]] ==

From all the articles I've worked on, [[:Image:Shapley–Folkman lemma.svg|my favorite image]] was made by [[User:David Eppstein|David&nbsp;Eppstein]], an awesome Wikipedian. Cheers, <small><span style="border:1px solid black;padding:1px;">[[User:Kiefer.Wolfowitz|<span style="color:blue;background:yellow;">&nbsp;'''Kiefer'''.'''Wolfowitz'''&nbsp;</span>]]</span></small>&nbsp;([[User talk:Kiefer.Wolfowitz#top|talk]]) 18:44, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

[[Image:Shapley–Folkman lemma.svg|thumb|center|700px|alt=The Shapley–Folkman lemma depicted by a diagram with two panes, one on the left and the other on the right. The left-hand pane displays four sets, which are displayed in a two-by-two array. Each of the sets contains exactly two points, which are displayed in red. In each set, the two points are joined by a pink line-segment, which is the convex hull of the original set. Each set has exactly one point that is indicated with a plus-symbol. In the top row of the two-by-two array, the plus-symbol lies in the interior of the line segment; in the bottom row, the plus-symbol coincides with one of the red-points. This completes the description of the left-hand pane of the diagram. The right-hand pane displays the Minkowski sum of the sets, which is the union of the sums having exactly one point from each summand-set; for the displayed sets, the sixteen sums are distinct points, which are displayed in red: The right-hand red sum-points are the sums of the left-hand red summand-points. The convex hull of the sixteen red-points is shaded in pink. In the pink interior of the right-hand sumset lies exactly one plus-symbol, which is the (unique) sum of the plus-symbols from the right-hand side. Comparing the left array and the right pane, one confirms that the right-hand plus-symbol is indeed the sum of the four plus-symbols from the left-hand sets, precisely two points from the original non-convex summand-sets and two points from the convex hulls of the remaining summand-sets.
|The [[Shapley–Folkman lemma]]. 

Every point in the [[convex hull]] of the [[Minkowski addition|Minkowski sum]] of the four [[convex set|non-convex set]]s is [[cover (topology)|covered by]] the sum of two original sets plus the convex hulls of two original sets.]]
== [[Harold Hotelling]]: Good stuff, man! ==

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Are you a fan of theoretical statistics and Hotelling and all that? [[User:TCO|TCO]] ([[User talk:TCO|talk]]) 23:40, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

:Professionally, I am a theoretical/mathematical statistician with interests in computational statistics and experimentation. In multivariate statistics, Hotelling developed [[T-square distribution|Hotelling's ''T''-statistic]], a multivariate generalization of [[William Gossett|Student]]'s [[t-statistic]] (of [[William Gossett]]), and  [[canonical correlation]] analysis; his paper on [[weighing design]]s opened an area of [[combinatorial design]] theory, apparently.  
:US statisticians esteem [[Harold Hotelling]] for promoting ideas of [[Ronald A. Fisher]] and then [[Jerzy Neyman]] and [[Abraham Wald]] in statistical theory and for his leadership in the profession---notably by founding departments of statistics and by inspiring the founding of other departments with his essay on the role of a [[statistical education|department of statistics]].
:Hotelling  had an eye for talent and supported refugees like [[Henry Mann]] and [[Abraham Wald]], and even helped [[Kenneth Arrow]]. In economics, Hotelling wrote pioneering essays in [[location theory]] and on [[non-convexity (economics)|non-convexity]], including [[consumer theory]] and [[marginal cost pricing]] for production with increasing [[returns to scale]].
:Hotelling was member in good standing of the [[United Methodist Church]] and the [[Socialist Party of America|Socialist Party]] (of [[Norman Thomas]] and [[Michael Harrington]]).
:Yes, I am a fan of Hotelling's!
:Best regards, <small><span style="border:1px solid black;padding:1px;">[[User:Kiefer.Wolfowitz|<span style="color:blue;background:yellow;">&nbsp;'''Kiefer'''.'''Wolfowitz'''&nbsp;</span>]]</span></small>&nbsp;([[User talk:Kiefer.Wolfowitz#top|talk]]) 07:06, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
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== Four DYK items ==

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=== DYK for Andreu Mas-Colell ===

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|text = On [[Wikipedia:Recent_additions#30 January 2011|30 January 2011]], '''[[:Template:Did you know|Did you know?]]''' was updated with a fact from the article '''''[[Andreu Mas-Colell]]''''', which you recently nominated. The fact was ''... that '''[[Andreu Mas-Colell]]''', currently the [[List of Ministers of Economy and Knowledge of Catalonia|Minister of Economy and Knowledge]] of [[Catalonia Government 2010-2014 term of office|Catalonia, Spain]], has studied [[general equilibrium theory]] by using [[differential topology]]?'' If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the [[:Template talk:Did you know|Did you know? talk page]].
}}<!-- Template:UpdatedDYKNom -->  —[[User:HJ Mitchell|<span style="color:Teal; font-family:Tahoma;">'''HJ&nbsp;Mitchell'''</span>]] &#124; [[User talk:HJ Mitchell|<span style="color:Navy; font-family:Times New Roman;">Penny for your thoughts? </span>]]  12:04, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

=== DYK for Henry Mann ===

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|text = On [[Wikipedia:Recent_additions#1 February 2011|1 February 2011]], '''[[:Template:Did you know|Did you know?]]''' was updated with a fact from the article '''''[[Henry Mann]]''''', which you recently nominated. The fact was ''... that '''[[Henry Mann]]'''{{`s}} 1949 book, ''Analysis and design of experiments'', filled mathematical gaps in the statistical writings of [[Ronald Fisher|Ronald A. Fisher]]?'' If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the [[:Template talk:Did you know|Did you know? talk page]].
}}<!-- Template:UpdatedDYKNom -->  —[[User:HJ Mitchell|<span style="color:Teal; font-family:Tahoma;">'''HJ&nbsp;Mitchell'''</span>]] &#124; [[User talk:HJ Mitchell|<span style="color:Navy; font-family:Times New Roman;">Penny for your thoughts? </span>]]  18:05, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

=== World-system at T:TDYK ===

Still waiting for your response to my last comment there. Thank you, --<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">[[User:Piotrus|Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus]]|[[User_talk:Piotrus|<span style="color:#7CFC00; background:#006400;"> talk </span>]]</span></sub> 20:21, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

:Please accept my apologies for the delay. As I commented at the article (revising it somewhat), and at the DYK page, the fact needs better documentation. <s>I checked the citation not because I doubted your good faith but because Andre Gunder Frank is notorious for terrible social science (see comments in Cardoso's ''Dependency and Underdevelopment in Latin America'', for example).</s> I'm sorry that the author, Janet A-L., wasn't credited for the DYK fact. Again, I regret the delay, which is my responsibility. Sincerely, <small><span style="border:1px solid black;padding:1px;">[[User:Kiefer.Wolfowitz|<span style="color:blue;background:yellow;">&nbsp;'''Kiefer'''.'''Wolfowitz'''&nbsp;</span>]]</span></small>&nbsp;([[User talk:Kiefer.Wolfowitz#top|talk]]) 20:44, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
::Replied there. Please check the DYK criteria, a lot of your critique (comments on the w-s theory, for example) are not relevant to the DYK process. I'd suggest you move them from the DYK discussion to the article's talk page, where they would provide valuable material to future improvement of the article. --<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">[[User:Piotrus|Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus]]|[[User_talk:Piotrus|<span style="color:#7CFC00; background:#006400;"> talk </span>]]</span></sub> 00:56, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

:::I wanted to explain why I bothered to check your source. <s>When the source is not intellectually disgraceful, then</s> I rarely would check the source, per "WP:AGF". I'll check your sourcing, now. <small><span style="border:1px solid black;padding:1px;">[[User:Kiefer.Wolfowitz|<span style="color:blue;background:yellow;">&nbsp;'''Kiefer'''.'''Wolfowitz'''&nbsp;</span>]]</span></small>&nbsp;([[User talk:Kiefer.Wolfowitz#top|talk]]) 01:00, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
::::If you are ok with the hook, can you add the appropriate check mark? Thanks. --<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">[[User:Piotrus|Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus]]|[[User_talk:Piotrus|<span style="color:#7CFC00; background:#006400;"> talk </span>]]</span></sub> 02:23, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

:::::My pleasure!  [[File:Symbol confirmed.svg|16px|link=]] <small><span style="border:1px solid black;padding:1px;">[[User:Kiefer.Wolfowitz|<span style="color:blue;background:yellow;">&nbsp;'''Kiefer'''.'''Wolfowitz'''&nbsp;</span>]]</span></small>&nbsp;([[User talk:Kiefer.Wolfowitz#top|talk]]) 02:29, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

Readers who wonder about the harshness of the stricken comments should remember the global body-count of the [[communist movements]], which AGF and the ''[[Monthly Review]]'' faithfully championed. Cardoso's criticisms of AGF's "social science" merit consideration. <small><span style="border:1px solid black;padding:1px;">[[User:Kiefer.Wolfowitz|<span style="color:blue;background:yellow;">&nbsp;'''Kiefer'''.'''Wolfowitz'''&nbsp;</span>]]</span></small>&nbsp;([[User talk:Kiefer.Wolfowitz#top|talk]]) 13:44, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

=== DYK for Non-convexity (economics) ===

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|text = On [[Wikipedia:Recent_additions#7 February 2011|7 February 2011]], '''[[:Template:Did you know|Did you know?]]''' was updated with a fact from the article '''''[[Non-convexity (economics)]]''''', which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ''... that economists blame [[market failure]]s on '''[[non-convexity (economics)|non-convexity]]'''?'' You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page <small>([[User:Rjanag/Pageview stats|here's how]], [http://stats.grok.se/en/201102/Non-convexity_(economics) quick check])</small> and add it to [[WP:DYKSTATS|DYKSTATS]] if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the [[:Template talk:Did you know|Did you know? talk page]].
}}  —[[User:HJ Mitchell|<span style="color:Teal; font-family:Tahoma;">'''HJ&nbsp;Mitchell'''</span>]] &#124; [[User talk:HJ Mitchell|<span style="color:Navy; font-family:Times New Roman;">Penny for your thoughts? </span>]]  00:03, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

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