Talk:Noether's Theorem (Calculus of Variations)

Rewritten in different form
No, please, we don't do that.

Only if the original form is completely incorrect (I wouldn't know, it's outside my realm of expertise) do we throw it away and replace it with something completely different.

If you want to state a theorem in a completely different form, give it a subpage name or use a disambiguation page or something, and (if you're up to it) write a proof page demonstrating their equivalence, or how one is an instance or implementation of the other. --prime mover (talk) 14:31, 11 February 2017 (EST)


 * I see. The previous form was a physicist's way of stating the theorem, which was not stated clearly enough. Also it was much more constrained than the version currently present. However it had the title, which should be kept for the original mathematical statement, as here we focus on mathematics first, and fields of application later. I will extract the previous version and place it in Hamiltonian mechanics section and disambiguate both statements of the theorem. --Julius (talk) 16:39, 11 February 2017 (EST)