Timeline for Misspelling my name on my mathematical publications
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| Jun 15, 2021 at 21:13 | comment | added | LSpice | @AndreasBlass's review (of Vaught - Invariant sets in topology and logic) referenced above. | |
| Jul 13, 2019 at 6:54 | history | reopened |
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| Jul 11, 2019 at 11:00 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| Jul 11, 2019 at 7:43 | comment | added | Dima Pasechnik | At some point I managed to get rid of extra "t" in the Latin spelling of my name, thanks to a friendly certified translator and the government of The Netherlands :-) | |
| Jul 11, 2019 at 7:39 | comment | added | Dima Pasechnik | this sort of problem pops up regularly for people with names spelled natively in a non-Latin alphabet. (Cyrillic, Hindi, Hebrew, etc), especially where there is no unique way to transliterate. (And authorities knowing better than you how to spell - e.g. at some point I had extra "t" in my family name in passport, while my father had extra "s" :-)) | |
| Jul 11, 2019 at 7:35 | history | closed |
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| Jul 11, 2019 at 5:10 | comment | added | David Roberts♦ | You could try contacting the journals where these were published to get an erratum/correction issued for each one. | |
| Jul 11, 2019 at 2:28 | answer | added | Dan Romik | timeline score: 12 | |
| Jul 10, 2019 at 14:27 | comment | added | Pace Nielsen | By the way, to all you potential advisers out there (and coauthors in general): you should never approve page proofs without the blessing of all authors. Moreover, it can be a very good thing for young researchers to carefully read page proofs. | |
| Jul 9, 2019 at 19:08 | answer | added | TonyK | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 9, 2019 at 13:21 | comment | added | S. Carnahan♦ | @Tim The custom on MathOverflow is roughly: questions without precise mathematical answers get CW. | |
| Jul 9, 2019 at 7:41 | comment | added | Tim | @s.c why was this made Community Wiki? | |
| Jul 8, 2019 at 21:23 | comment | added | John Bentin | This question seems more appropriate for Academia.Stackexchange. The issue is not a mathematical one. | |
| Jul 8, 2019 at 19:11 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Jul 8, 2019 at 18:01 | comment | added | Andreas Blass | @NikWeaver It's very easy to overlook such trivialities when proofreading. There's at least one single-author paper where the author's name is misspelled, not on the first page but in the header of a later page. (I know this only because I reviewed the paper for MathReviews: MR0363912 (51 #167).) As for myself, as the thesis adviser of Thiradet Jiarasuksakun, I certainly won't claim inerrancy in such matters (though I don't think I've misspelled my students' names yet). | |
| Jul 8, 2019 at 15:24 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by S. Carnahan♦ | ||
| Jul 8, 2019 at 14:59 | comment | added | YCor | An advisor can misspell a student's name, this can happen for some reason (we have unequal sensibility to spelling). What's more weird is that the advisor didn't involve his student in proof checking, assuming the OP's related faithfully what happened. | |
| Jul 8, 2019 at 14:55 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | @NikWeaver : I am highly sensitive to misspellings myself, but I've learned that many people are not. The advisor may literally have not noticed that the name on the paper was spelled any differently from the way it was spelled elsewhere. Anyway, I side with those who say that there is no reason to continue misspelling the name just for the sake of consistency. | |
| Jul 8, 2019 at 14:32 | comment | added | Nik Weaver | @JoséFigueroa-O'Farrill: I guess. I make errors all the time, but it's hard for me to imagine misspelling my own student's name on a paper. | |
| Jul 8, 2019 at 13:30 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jul 8, 2019 at 13:17 | answer | added | Jim Humphreys | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jul 8, 2019 at 12:34 | comment | added | José Figueroa-O'Farrill | @NikWeaver Anyone can make an error. What I find truly bizarre is the suggestion that they should continue to mis-spell the name. | |
| Jul 8, 2019 at 12:23 | comment | added | Nik Weaver | What?? How does an advisor not know how to spell his own student's name? | |
| Jul 8, 2019 at 12:13 | answer | added | Carlo Beenakker | timeline score: 26 | |
| Jul 8, 2019 at 11:56 | comment | added | YCor | I started publishing under "Yves de C##" and later mostly under "Yves C##". I changed mostly because people mess up with the first version (adding capital to "de", adding "de" in phrases where it shouldn't) so that the second version makes my life easier. However, a consequence is that typing "C##" (fully spelled of course) in MathSciNet results in a partial list (one has to click my name, then click "publications" to get the full list under both names). I'm saying this because this is what will happen if you publish under 2 names, and maybe you don't want this as long as you're applying. | |
| Jul 8, 2019 at 11:52 | history | edited | YCor | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 8, 2019 at 11:50 | comment | added | Neil Strickland | I have heard that MathSciNet devotes a great deal of effort to ensuring that publications are attributed to the right authors even when two authors have the same name, or one author goes by different names in different places. So if you were to contact them, I am sure that they would sort it out in their database, at least. The ArXiV also tracks authors by numeric identifiers rather than names. | |
| Jul 8, 2019 at 11:47 | answer | added | Danny Ruberman | timeline score: 36 | |
| Jul 8, 2019 at 11:10 | comment | added | Geoff Robinson | It may depend on the stage of your career. If you are early in your career, it may be better to start publishing with your correct name, but include all your publications on your CV, explaining there that some publications were published under a variant name. Personally, to me it does not seem right that you have to maintain an incorrect publishing name for the rest of your career because your adviser misspelt it once- but mine might be a minority opinion. | |
| Jul 8, 2019 at 11:03 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | Change your name? | |
| Jul 8, 2019 at 11:00 | review | First posts | |||
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| Jul 8, 2019 at 10:59 | history | asked | Leyli Jafari | CC BY-SA 4.0 |