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Links that would've been nice in the article: Craig Kaplan's page on near-miss Johnson solids https://isohedral.ca/a-new-near-miss/ https://isohedral.ca/a-new-
by yesenadam 8y ago
Links that would've been nice in the article:
Craig Kaplan's page on near-miss Johnson solids https://isohedral.ca/a-new-near-miss/ https://isohedral.ca/a-new-near-miss/
Jim McNeill's polyhedra pages http://www.orchidpalms.com/polyhedra/ http://www.orchidpalms.com/polyhedra/ Near Misses page http://www.orchidpalms.com/polyhedra/acrohedra/nearmiss/nearmiss.htm http://www.orchidpalms.com/polyhedra/acrohedra/nearmiss/near...
The article says "by Evelyn Lamb February 21, 2019"
..but at the bottom says "This article was originally published in our “The Absurd” issue in June, 2017."
..but John Baez's article "Rectified Truncated Icosahedron" (i.e. the name of Kaplan's solid) is dated April 1, 2016. https://blogs.ams.org/visualinsight/2016/04/01/rectified_truncated_icosahedron/ https://blogs.ams.org/visualinsight/2016/04/01/rectified_tru... .. Lamb somehow omits the solid's name. Baez refers to Johnson, Kaplan, McNeill and a lot of other people/sites as well. And links to them! Both have blogged for the AMS.
Unless Lamb is Baez, this seems oddly like plagiarism. But I guess there must be some decent explanation.
edit: Although maybe that's ridiculous - the articles are different: she's got some quotes from each of the main players - even Baez - including tidbits about other near misses (Only the Simpsons-Fermat one was new to me, so they didn't seem the meat of the article).