Talk:Mikhail Kadets

DYK suggestion

... that the mathematician Mikhail Kadets became interested in the theory of Banach spaces after reading the Ukrainian translation of a book by Stefan Banach?

That is an excellent suggestion and very important. I would love for somebody to translate the Ukrainian parts of Banach's treatise into English. Diestel's Sequels and Series notes that Gurariy^2's beautiful and spectacular Bessellian (?) renorming of uniformly convex Banach spaces uses a result by Banach. I think that Gurariy^2 cite the Ukrainian version.

I'll be in Lviv in 2 weeks, and shall try to check ....  Kiefer.Wolfowitz 23:23, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

Lviv (with an "i")? then приємного шляху на батьківщину просторів Банаха Sasha (talk) 23:27, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

And the only cafe where I get asked to be whipped! ;)

The home also of European coffee! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kiefer.Wolfowitz (talk • contribs) 01:15, 17 December 2011 (UTC)

nominated. Sasha (talk) 23:41, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

"Jewish"

Maybe a footnote should be added about the USSR system of nationalities/ethnicities, etc.  Kiefer.Wolfowitz 01:12, 17 December 2011 (UTC)

This was not supposed to be a political statement. To me, "Soviet" means pro-Soviet, whereas Soviet-born is more neutral. "Jewish" is part of his biography (mentioned in the references as a reason why he did not get a job at the university), so I thought it should be mentioned without emphasis. Still, this sentence sounds somewhat clumsy, help from a native speaker would be appreciated. Sasha (talk) 01:28, 17 December 2011 (UTC)

Project Russia?

Has this article been added to the WikiProject Russia because Russian is widely spoken in Kharkiv, Ukraine (or Kadets wrote in Russian, apparently)?  Kiefer.Wolfowitz 21:06, 1 February 2012 (UTC)