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[–] TheBuddha [S] 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Oh, much further than that. What we call the Pythagorean maths probably came from Persia. Plagiarism goes back pretty much forever - and it's only really a problem when you claim it as your own. The truth is that science and mathematics are all advanced on the shoulders of giants. Everyone has based their work on the people who came before them, that's how science works. We give credit for it today, but that's not always been the case.

Today, we frown on plagiarism but we have a method for using someone else's work. It's the citations method and there's a few ways of listing them. In this case, it's particularly egregious in that it appears to be nearly a direct copy without any citations at all.