[–] SocksOnCats ago
Ask TurnItIn to verify it.
It's already been pushed into the official faculty investigations. I have a number of peers who remain in academia. So, today I ruined someone's academic career - potentially. (Damned near certainly - if you look at the two bodies of work.)
We have a citation process, plagiarism has no excuses. To outright take work and claim it as your own? That has no place in academia. So, unless there's a very, very strange misunderstanding - I ruined someone's entire academic career today. Strangely, I don't feel bad about it.
[–] TheBuddha [S] 3 points 5 points 8 points (+8|-3) ago
You probably don't care but, at least until fairly recent history, a goodly amount of our mathematics has come from Arabia and much of this was done during the times of the Muslim empires. One such example is a fella named Al Gabr. You may recognize that we named a whole discipline after him, called Algebra.
It was through Arabia that we got the numerals we use today, though those began in what's now known as India. We call them Arabic numbers, but they are really Hindu-Arabic numbers. Another such advancement would be what we call 'algorithms.'
For whatever reasons, they no longer seem quite so keen on education, but the planet's center of learning used to be in Baghdad. Acedmia flourished for many generations there.
[–] Shekelstein6M 4 points 8 points 12 points (+12|-4) ago
You probably don't care but, at least until fairly recent history, a goodly amount of our mathematics has come from Arabia
Correction, a good amount of mathematical knowledge came from places that muslims conquered (Greece, Egypt, Babylon, Persia, India). When muslims stopped conquering they stopped advancing scientifically.
[–] TheBuddha [S] 0 points 15 points 15 points (+15|-0) ago
I've now fired off a few emails to start the investigation by a body of peers. If we see confirmation of plagiarism, which it does look like, we will file a formal complaint.
Do your own research!
Yeah, we don't get much excitement in this discipline.
[–] AmaleksHairyAss 2 points 1 point 3 points (+3|-2) ago
lol. Well good on ya for catching this.
[–] TheBuddha [S] 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
I only noticed 'cause I'd read the paper back in December. I was like, "Hey! This looks familiar."
Worse, I couldn't remember the title so it took me a bit to find it again - only to finally figure out that they'd even used the same title. They're too close to be a coincidence.