Talk:Path integral
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Just a question, why not put this under the title of "contour integral". I have a B.S. in physics and am currently working on my Ph.D., and in all my Math and Physics courses I have never heard this sort of integration refered to as a path integral, always as a contour integral. "path integral" is always used to refer to an integration over a set of paths in the sense of Feynmann. This may be a may vary based upon country of even university, but it's probably worth consideration.
- In the several editions of vector calculus or multi-variable calculus textbooks my university uses (University of Arizona, current textbook in use ISBN 0-471-40952-9), it is invariably called a Path Integral. It sounds as though we may need a disambig page rather than a quick statement on the top of the article. I'd suggest moving Path integral to Contour integral and putting the disambig page at Path integral with links to Contour integral and Functional integration. Any other ideas? --Abqwildcat 00:40, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)