Talk:Lectora/MathematicalPractice

National Conventions

There is a mistake about the combination notation, that I have already seen in MathML specification and in a paper about MathWebSearch. The traditional french notation for combination is $$C_n^k$$ ( see http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinaison ), and as a consequence I suppose $$C_n^k$$ is the Russian one. At school, I have been taught and used the international notation, even if documents still contains the notation $$C_n^k$$.

Discussion

In France, I have been taught "Cauchy-Schwarz-Bunyakovskii theorem".

Thanks for your contribution. I have added the wrong notation specification to our todo-list for the OMDoc specification and corrected it on the wiki page. --Cmueller 16:48, 13 April 2007 (CEST)

In fact I have been taught "inégalité de Cauchy-Schwarz-Bunyakovskii" (Cauchy-Schwarz-Bunyakovskii inequality). Anyway, If you look on the french Wikipedia, they say "Cauchy-Schwarz" or "Cauchy-Bunyakovski-Schwarz" ( http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/In%C3%A9galit%C3%A9_de_Cauchy-Schwarz) so I don't think there is a general rule for a given country.