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Come on, this is a myth. I work in math and it is not at all unusual to cite informal sources. Also, someone should inform Greg Egan: http://www.gregegan.net/S
by ASipos 8y ago
Come on, this is a myth. I work in math and it is not at all unusual to cite informal sources.
Also, someone should inform Greg Egan: http://www.gregegan.net/SCIENCE/Superpermutations/Superpermutations.html http://www.gregegan.net/SCIENCE/Superpermutations/Superpermu...
- empath75 8y agoIf you click through the links, he's in the google groups thread talking about it.
- ASipos 8y agoThanks! For those interested, the link is https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/superpermutators/j5y24bOemiM https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/superpermutators/j...
- jessriedel 8y agoYea, this is also something that is not unique to the internet age. Academics have been (imperfectly) assigning credit to informal contributions since there have been citations (and before!). Footnotes like "I thank B. Johnson for this argument" have always been used.
- JdeBP 8y agoItself discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18271265 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18271265 .