Abraham Robertson, the Binomial Theorem, and the nature of plagiarism in mathematics
We examine a charge made against the Oxford mathematician Abraham Robertson in 1807 that in publishing what he claimed to be a new proof of the Binomial Theorem, he had in fact plagiarized a method used by Leonhard Euler thirty years earlier. We place Robertson and his work into their historical co...
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| स्वरूप: | Journal article |
| भाषा: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
2024
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