Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dirichlet and Neumann problems and eigenvalues

Dirichlet and Neumann problems and eigenvalues

I am a mathematician, with some knowledge about spectra of differential operators, which this article is about. As many people guessed, this article just gives a badly explained description of the spectrum of the Laplace operator with Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions. There is not much value in this article, and there will not be more if it is properly wikified and integrated with other articles. To make this article at least somewhat meaningful, one would need to talk about the physical interpretation of the laplacian, (e.g., the fact that the eigenvalues are the frequences of a drum in the shape of the set \Omega), the uses of the defintion in here, and other things. Also, one would need to put at least some justification or references for the many claims stated in here.

In short, this article the way it is is a worthless definition full of math lingo, and it would take lots of work to put it in good shape, which I doubt is worth it. Any other ideas? Oleg Alexandrov 00:45, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

• Delete please. hydnjo talk 01:54, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Delete as unhelpful fragment. Wyss 03:01, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Delete please. Jeff Knaggs|Talk 15:21, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• It'd have my keep vote merely as an argument for keeping the ugly math template, but seeing as that's already deleted, delete. --fvw* 17:15, 2005 Jan 3 (UTC)

Why is this page still standing? Oleg Alexandrov 03:09, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)