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@David Eppstein: I agree that the lead should be written for a general audience and non-technical. Regarding this edit, it's not pedantic that the wording needs to be revised away from solved the "cursed curve", a Diophantine equation. A curve can be the solution set of an equation, but not be an equation. One can solve a Diophantine equation (which might define a curve), but one cannot solve a curve. There are ways to word this non-technically while still making sense.
Perhaps we don't need to explicitly mention rational points but I don't think that adding something like "rational solution" or "rational point" really introduces much extra technicality for general audiences compared to the extra precision. — MarkH21talk 18:22, 7 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
The place for technicality is not the lead sentence. If you really want to be pedantic that a curve is not something that can be solved, then "solved the problem of the cursed curve". —David Eppstein (talk) 19:51, 7 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
That's at an improvement, and I think it's suitable. I agree that we should avoid technical language to the lead sentence, but it should at least be somewhat correct. — MarkH21talk 20:16, 7 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
The Wikipedia article says she is "Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor", Google Scholar and her homepage at Boston University say she is "Clare Boothe Luce Associate Professor". Her CV (http://math.bu.edu/people/jbala/JSB_CV.pdf) says this was a step in her career in this year 2021. I intend to change that in the Wikipedia article. --Himbeerbläuling (talk) 13:52, 15 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Hope i did not make an edit accident with the citation templates.--Himbeerbläuling (talk) 13:09, 9 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
