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unless I'm missing something large chunks were taken straight from Mathematical Apocrypha Redux : https://books.google.ca/books?id=8mBdvAjk_gQC&pg=PA155&lpg=PA1

unless I'm missing something large chunks were taken straight from Mathematical Apocrypha Redux : https://books.google.ca/books?id=8mBdvAjk_gQC&pg=PA155&lpg=PA155&dq=Every+chaos+is+a+wrong+appearance&source=bl&ots=2teQHq3kcO&sig=bLhjrRRQWSaCrtXdj6QRyCOZvhQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiQwOSm_tfPAhVDHx4KHYGRBAcQ6AEIJzAC#v=onepage&q=Every%20chaos%20is%20a%20wrong%20appearance&f=false https://books.google.ca/books?id=8mBdvAjk_gQC&pg=PA155&lpg=P...

patorjk 10y ago
Wow, you're not kidding: [Article] > He believed in ghosts; he had a morbid dread of being poisoned by refrigerator gases; he refused to go out when certain distinguished mathematicians were in town, apparently out of concern that they might try to kill him. “Every chaos is a wrong appearance,” he insisted—the paranoiac’s first axiom. vs [Book] > Gödel believed in ghosts; he had a morbid dread of being poisoned by refrigerator gases; he refused to go out when certain distinguished mathematicians were in town, apparently because he feared that they would try to kill him. Gödel said, "Every chaos is a wrong appearance." This is kind of a bummer too, because the article was a wonderful read, and it actually flows a lot better than the text in the book. However, it does appear that a lot of the article is a re-wording of what's in the book, just weaved together into a better flow. EDIT: Based on the other replies, I may have things reversed. It may be that the book is ripping off the article.
- odbol_ 10y ago
  ahem plagiarism much? I expected better from The New Yorker.
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  - dllthomas 10y ago
    "Who made me the genius I am today, the mathematician that others all quote?"
    - eli_gottlieb 10y ago
      Nikolai Ivanovitch Lobachevski is his name!
michael_nielsen 10y ago
According to Amazon (not always reliable) that book came out in September 2005. The New Yorker article is from February 2005. Suggests the sourcing may be the other way around.
devilsavocado 10y ago
I might be missing something as well, but it appears to me that the article was published about 7 months before Mathematical Apocrypha Redux was (Feb 2005, vs Oct 2005). No?
- mirekrusin 10y ago
  They probably both ripped something else off then. Hey, AI, who was the first author of those words? Email me, when you wake up. Thanks.
  - Ono-Sendai 10y ago
    There is also the book 'A world without Time', also about Einstein and Godel, published in 2005 as well: https://www.amazon.co.uk/World-without-Time-Forgotten-Einstein/dp/0465092942 https://www.amazon.co.uk/World-without-Time-Forgotten-Einste... The topic of Einstein and Godel seems to have been in the air in 2005. (Edit: 100 year anniversary of SR publication?)

patorjk 10y ago

Wow, you're not kidding: [Article] > He believed in ghosts; he had a morbid dread of being poisoned by refrigerator gases; he refused to go out when certain distinguished mathematicians were in town, apparently out of concern that they might try to kill him. “Every chaos is a wrong appearance,” he insisted—the paranoiac’s first axiom. vs [Book] > Gödel believed in ghosts; he had a morbid dread of being poisoned by refrigerator gases; he refused to go out when certain distinguished mathematicians were in town, apparently because he feared that they would try to kill him. Gödel said, "Every chaos is a wrong appearance." This is kind of a bummer too, because the article was a wonderful read, and it actually flows a lot better than the text in the book. However, it does appear that a lot of the article is a re-wording of what's in the book, just weaved together into a better flow. EDIT: Based on the other replies, I may have things reversed. It may be that the book is ripping off the article.

odbol_ 10y ago
ahem plagiarism much? I expected better from The New Yorker.
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- dllthomas 10y ago
  "Who made me the genius I am today, the mathematician that others all quote?"
  - eli_gottlieb 10y ago
    Nikolai Ivanovitch Lobachevski is his name!

michael_nielsen 10y ago

According to Amazon (not always reliable) that book came out in September 2005. The New Yorker article is from February 2005. Suggests the sourcing may be the other way around.

devilsavocado 10y ago

I might be missing something as well, but it appears to me that the article was published about 7 months before Mathematical Apocrypha Redux was (Feb 2005, vs Oct 2005). No?

mirekrusin 10y ago
They probably both ripped something else off then. Hey, AI, who was the first author of those words? Email me, when you wake up. Thanks.
- Ono-Sendai 10y ago
  There is also the book 'A world without Time', also about Einstein and Godel, published in 2005 as well: https://www.amazon.co.uk/World-without-Time-Forgotten-Einstein/dp/0465092942 https://www.amazon.co.uk/World-without-Time-Forgotten-Einste... The topic of Einstein and Godel seems to have been in the air in 2005. (Edit: 100 year anniversary of SR publication?)