Talk:Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow
Pronunciation
I recall reading a book that specified the pronunciation of Sylow, and noted that pronouncing it like Silo is completely wrong. It may have been "The theory of finite groups : an introduction", by Hans Kurzweil, and Bernd Stellmacher (but that strikes me as wrong) but I don't have access to the library to check it any more. In any case, we should have a note on the correct pronounciation, here and possibly on Sylow Theorem.--Prosfilaes 17:50, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
I support this comment. One of my teachers told me to pronounce it "sylov". We should definitively have an .ogg file with the pronunciation of his name. Randomblue (talk) 15:53, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
It's actually more like See-Wov. The l is actually an ł. --128.6.168.245 (talk) 15:04, 26 September 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.6.168.245 (talk)
According to "Contemporary Abstract Algebra" by Gallian & Gallian pg 341 it's pronounced "See-low". Merosonox t c g 18:11, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
Spelling of second name
I suggest we ought to follow Norwegian practice in spelling his name as "Ludvig", not "Ludwig". This would agree with
- * Store norske leksikon (http://snl.no/.nbl_biografi/Ludvig_Sylow/utdypning), as well as several references quoted there
- * Norwegian Wikipedia
- * Nynorsk Wikipedia
- * Netherlands Wikipedia.
Probably "Ludwig" (the German spelling of the name) may be a mistake imported from some English-language sources which I trust less than the Norwegian ones. (In his own publications which I've seen he just appears as "L. Sylow", which helps not at all.)I suppose the change would mean moving the page. I wouldn't do that without authority or consensus.