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Andy Putman comments on "Why was this question closed ?" (18359)

Andy Putman — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:04:44 -0800

The question is much improved. I missed the boat on doing so, but I would have voted to reopen as well. And I just voted it up.

vagabond comments on "Why was this question closed ?" (18356)

vagabond — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:47:49 -0800

Thank you to all for considering my request to reopen the question. A special thanks to all those who voted to reopen.

vagabond comments on "Why was this question closed ?" (18354)

vagabond — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:55:29 -0800

Thank you Prof. Myerson. I noticed you took the trouble to proofread and edit my question too. As a non native speaker of the language I end up making some obvious grammatical mistakes. It really helps me to improve when someone points out these mistakes.

Emil J comments on "Why was this question closed ?" (18353)

Emil J — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:45:50 -0800

Retracting a vote is not possible (AFAIK). I voted to reopen.

Gerry Myerson comments on "Why was this question closed ?" (18352)

Gerry Myerson — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:59:58 -0800

I left a comment with my evaluation of the question, and voted to close. The question was later considerably improved, and I deleted my critical comment as no longer applicable, but forgot to undo my vote to close (actually, I'm not entirely sure it's possible to retract a vote). Perhaps it should be reopened.

vagabond comments on "Why was this question closed ?" (18351)

vagabond — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:01:04 -0800

I fail to understand why this question was closed ? http://mathoverflow.net/questions/87647/connections-of-results-in-harmonic-analysis-in-the-theory-of-transcendental-numbe . It seems to me a little extreme. Is it because those voted are sure, that the results in harmonic Analysis has no bearing to Transcendental Number Theory ?

The initial title was asking for connection with Uncertainty Principle, which I changed later as per S. Carnahan's suggestion. I also added what led me to think that there might be connection to results in Harmonic Analysis :-

That Polya's result about entire function of exponential type, having slow growth (i.e., type < log 2 and taking integer values at integers have to be polynomial can be seen as a Uncertainty type result.

If someone could elaborate on what I am missing I would be very thankful.