Theory of Knowledge - Course Companion for Students Marija Uzunova Dang Arvin Singh Uzunov Dang

can do this from outside the profession.
Nobody
mathematicians can talk to mathematicians
Only
ethics … and we need to begin the process of
about
a community: supporting each other, sharing
forming
experiences, best practice, and a vision of
knowledge,
we can teach our students.
what
mathmatis organizations hav
Profssional
thial guidlins and ods of
pulishd
18 August 2006 th New Yorker magazin
On
an artil (linkd hr) that tlls a
pulishd
story of ontrovrsy in th intrnational
rar
ommunity. Th ontrovrsy
mathmatis
th Poinaré onjtur, whih
onrnd
widly aptd to tru, rmaind
although
for ovr 100 yars. It is on of svn
unprovn
Priz Prolms sltd y th
Millnnium
Mathmatis Institut, proofs of whih
Clay
ah rwardd with a million-dollar priz.
ar
trms: Th Nw
Sarh
Manifold dstiny
Yorkr
Novmr 2002 Russian mathmatiian
In
Prlman pulishd th first pi of
Grigori
thr-part proof of th Poinaré onjtur.
a
ah part th xitmnt among
With
grw that th Poinaré
mathmatiians
might finally provn. Prlman
onjtur
alrady widly rognizd in th
was
mathmatis ommunity as an
intrnational
giftd mathmatiian. H was
xptionally
rlusiv and y som aounts ntri.
also
offrs from ovtd aadmi
Dlining
h rturnd to St Ptrsurg,
institutions,
ak in with his mothr, took up a
movd
at a loal institut, and thrw himslf
position
his proof was omplt, h limitd
Whn
y only slf-pulishing it on th
puliity
aadmi prati. Th as study low
of
on issu of a profssional ontrovrsy
xplors
mathmatis. Although not partiular to
in
AOK, what would om known as
this
Prlman affair aquird a distintiv
th
and raisd an important qustion:
dimnsion
what xtnt ar thial issus in mathmatis
to
to th individuals involvd, traal
spifi
th ultur of th mathmatis ommunity,
to
gnral issus of aadmi prati and
or
Considr this qustion as you rad
malprati?
as study.
th
and going on a spaking tour of th
intrnt
Stats. Byond this, h livd that
Unitd
work should spak for itslf: “[i]f th
th
is orrt, thn no othr rognition is
proof
(Prlman quotd in Nassr,
ndd”
2006).
Grur
slf-pulishd th proof y
Prlman
a pr-print to arXiv.org, whih w
sumitting
in Chaptr 7. It was risky for him to
xamin
pr-prints; had thr n an rror or
pulish
in his logi, anyon who ould idntify
fault
fix it ould laim th proof as thir own.
or
this was not a onrn for Prlman. “My
But
was: if I mad an rror and somon
rasoning
my work to onstrut a orrt proof I
usd
plasd”, h said in an intrviw for
would
New York Times magazin (Nassr, Grur
th
On h had rturnd from his US tour,
2016).
distand himslf from th pross
Prlman
vrifying his proof out of th dsir to avoid
of
it, to th point of not rplying to
influning
Manwhil, som of th rightst
-mails.
in th fild wr usy with a formal
minds
of his work. It took thm svral
xpliation
working in tams, to losly xamin
yars,
hk th proof, whih was oth vry rif
and
th summr of 2006, just as on group
In
ompltd a manusript analysing
had
proof, a 328-pag artil y Huai-
Prlman’s
Cao and Xi-Ping Zhu was pulishd,
Dong
IV. Ethics
IV. Ethics
(Chiodo, Bursill-Hall 2018)
ondut, ut ths typially fous on issus
Case study
Pure and simple
and vry omplx.
at th Poinaré onjtur.
taking up a whol issu of th Asian Journal
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