Further to IPKat team member Neil's post earlier today (here), and seeing as the weekend is almost upon us, here are some enjoyable themes for readers to contemplate.
1. Tom Lehrer's classic song 'Plagiarize' (you can listen here or read the lyrics here), summoned up from the depths of Tony McStea's memory, which contains the obviously relevant verse
3 In Praise of Plagiarism. Team member Jeremy has additionally unearthed In Praise of Plagiarism by Russell A. Hunt (St. Thomas University), which bears a notice that reads, "in-process draft, based on oral presentation. Please cite or quote from one of the published versions". Hmm.
1. Tom Lehrer's classic song 'Plagiarize' (you can listen here or read the lyrics here), summoned up from the depths of Tony McStea's memory, which contains the obviously relevant verse
2. UniBergen's 5 minute masterpiece Et Plagieringseventyr (which you can watch here), drawn to the Kats' attention by University of Plymouth librarian and copyright guru Graham Titley.Plagiarize
Let no one else's work evade your eyes
Remember why the good Lord made your eyes
So don't shade your eyes
But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize
Only be sure always to call it please "research".
3 In Praise of Plagiarism. Team member Jeremy has additionally unearthed In Praise of Plagiarism by Russell A. Hunt (St. Thomas University), which bears a notice that reads, "in-process draft, based on oral presentation. Please cite or quote from one of the published versions". Hmm.
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Of course, the title of Lehrer's masterpiece is "Lobachevsky", not "Plagiarize".
ReplyDeleteTo Anonymous 4:37pm -- You're right, but "Plagiarize" is easier to remember, less offensive to the memory of Nikolai Lobachevsky and more apposite to the subject matter.
ReplyDeleteSee this too: "Some mathematicians and historians have wrongfully claimed that Lobachevsky stole his concept of non-Euclidean geometry from Gauss, which is untrue - Gauss himself appreciated Lobachevsky's published works very highly, but they never had personal correspondence between them prior to the publication. In fact out of the three people that can be credited with discovery of hyperbolic geometry - Gauss, Lobachevsky and Bolyai, Lobachevsky rightfully deserves having his name attached to it, since Gauss never published his ideas and out of the latter two Lobachevsky was the first who duly presented his views to the world mathematical community". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Lobachevsky
That's why the Kats renamed the song.
Jeremy,
ReplyDeleteYou are correct that Lobachevsky was the first who duly presented his views to the world mathematical community.
However, Bolyai did have a proof before Lobachevsky, and DID submit that proof to Gauss (Bolyai's Father's best friend) before Lobachevsky had his version published.
BOTH Lobachevsky and Bolyai deserve credit for the invetion of hyperbolic geometry.
In fact, if anyone does not, it would be Gauss, who made no attempt to publish his version, which was supposedly found in his private diaries post-mortem (I don't mean this as a knock again the great gauss, just as a defence of the other two mathematicians).
What I want to know is why hasn't hollywood made a movie about this yet?