Wikipedia articles are fairly consistent in writing "Euclidean", "Newtonian", "Eulerian", "Riemannian" with upper-case first letter. Is there any reason why, instead of "Abelian", mostly "abelian" is being used?
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We follow the mathematical usage; "abelian" is much more common than "Abelian". Generally, it is considered to be an honour if you have made it to an adjective and are written in lower-case. AxelBoldt

A stalwart from our lexicon of maths jokes to get us through lectures: What's purple and commutes? An abelian grape.

So, in the unlikely event that you were wondering, that's why the recent anon made those pecular edits! Pete/Pcb21 (talk) 12:45, 9 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Could be someone who's central heating's out and has to travel on a very cold bus to work? Dysprosia 12:47, 9 Dec 2003 (UTC)

I don't know the right word, so I'll post my addition on this talk page, so that someone can put the corrected version in the article.

A finite group can easily be checked to be abelian by creating its group table (what's "Gruppentafel" in english?): The group is abelian iff the table is symmetric along the main diagonal. --SirJective 12:10, 19 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Group table, probably. Would you like me to add this, or do you want to go ahead? I have something to add related to your potention addition... Dysprosia 12:14, 19 Dec 2003 (UTC)

I'm a bit unsure about my language being correct. After 8 years of English lessons at school I can read and understand the most, but never was good at writing things myself. So I would prefer you to add my sentence. It irritates me that I cannot find the group table in this wikipedia, nor via google... A search in MathWorld yields the term multiplication table... That seems to be the right term!

You may also want to look at Cayley diagram or cayley table as it applies specifically to groups.

See also Talk:Cantor-Bernstein-Schroeder_theorem for another addition, which hasn't inspired anyone since the end of october. --SirJective 12:41, 19 Dec 2003 (UTC)

For this, as you can see, I've avoided the problem altogether :) Dysprosia 23:45, 19 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Fine, thanks. 217.80.248.173 12:24, 20 Dec 2003 (UTC)