Yup. I don't even feel bad about it. Plagiarism is unacceptable, especially in my discipline. I love mathematics too much to let that go unanswered. It's actually the first plagiarism I'd personally uncovered.
That's pretty cool. I would never read a paper like that in the first place. It's mostly over my head, I'm sure. I'm not a mathematician. You have a good memory to remember seeing that before. I've had times where I had seen articles in the local newspaper that were printed word for word a month earlier, but I didn't make any kind of issue, it wasnt academic
Yeah, I've a lot of training with mathematics so it sticks n my memory for a while. See, I read mathematics like you might read English. If I'm well practiced, I can even read it at a reasonable speed. I'm a bit out of practice, but still not too bad. It's a bit like learning a foreign language, and it is a language.
Still, it almost certainly is going to result in someone's academic career being finished. They will almost certainly be expelled and won't be admitted into any other reputable university. They are, pretty much, now done with their career in academics. They might be able to use those skills to get a data science or programming job, but they'll never work in academia. They'll never get their doctorate. They'll not even get their degree that they are working on. I've completely changed their life, as of today.
And I don't feel even a little bad about it. As a scientist and mathematician, I'm very interested in maintaining the reputation of academia. There is no acceptable excuse for this. There are no second chances, at least not at reputable universities. They're done with their time in academia. That's a good thing.
[–] crazy_eyes 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
That's pretty cool. I would never read a paper like that in the first place. It's mostly over my head, I'm sure. I'm not a mathematician. You have a good memory to remember seeing that before. I've had times where I had seen articles in the local newspaper that were printed word for word a month earlier, but I didn't make any kind of issue, it wasnt academic
[–] TheBuddha [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Yeah, I've a lot of training with mathematics so it sticks n my memory for a while. See, I read mathematics like you might read English. If I'm well practiced, I can even read it at a reasonable speed. I'm a bit out of practice, but still not too bad. It's a bit like learning a foreign language, and it is a language.
Still, it almost certainly is going to result in someone's academic career being finished. They will almost certainly be expelled and won't be admitted into any other reputable university. They are, pretty much, now done with their career in academics. They might be able to use those skills to get a data science or programming job, but they'll never work in academia. They'll never get their doctorate. They'll not even get their degree that they are working on. I've completely changed their life, as of today.
And I don't feel even a little bad about it. As a scientist and mathematician, I'm very interested in maintaining the reputation of academia. There is no acceptable excuse for this. There are no second chances, at least not at reputable universities. They're done with their time in academia. That's a good thing.