Talk:Mary Emily Sinclair

A fact from Mary Emily Sinclair appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 24 October 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that 100 years after Mary Emily Sinclair wrote a master's thesis in mathematics on the discriminants of quintic polynomials, Helaman Ferguson based a sculpture on her work?

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Latest comment: 2 years ago4 comments3 people in discussion

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 16:43, 16 October 2021 (UTC)Reply

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... that 100 years after Mary Emily Sinclair wrote a master's thesis in mathematics on the discriminants of quintic polynomials, Helaman Ferguson based a sculpture on her work? Source: Top&Weitenberg, Bull. AMS: "In 2003, the American sculptor Helaman Ferguson made a stone model [Fe03] based on Sinclair’s thesis."

Reviewed: George Pitcher (philosopher)

Created by David Eppstein (talk). Self-nominated at 23:53, 5 October 2021 (UTC).Reply

The article is new enough, long enough, not copyvio, well sourced. Hook is interesting and cited in the article. QPQ has been done. Good to go. —Kusma (talk) 13:00, 7 October 2021 (UTC)Reply

Promoting to Prep 3 – Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 16:43, 16 October 2021 (UTC)Reply

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