Timeline for References for literature from mathematicians who provided critiques and proposals concerning ethical aspects of mathematics research
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| Jul 20 at 17:20 | comment | added | YCor | @GerryMyerson You're right, I was wrong in my expectation. | |
| Jul 20 at 13:51 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jul 20 at 13:25 | answer | added | Gerry Myerson | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 5, 2021 at 7:42 | comment | added | user142929 | Many thanks for your contribution @user57 | |
| Oct 3, 2021 at 18:56 | answer | added | shane.orourke | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 1, 2021 at 23:07 | comment | added | user366545 | I would say Récoltes et Semailles fits here. Grothendieck critiques the mathematical community and his students very lengthy. The heart of the book is not critique per se, but to know the facts to be digested for the profit of his meditation. | |
| Oct 1, 2021 at 21:15 | answer | added | pinaki | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 1, 2021 at 12:10 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Oct 1, 2021 at 11:58 | answer | added | Tom Leinster | timeline score: 7 | |
| Oct 1, 2021 at 11:37 | answer | added | Dan Fox | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 1, 2021 at 10:51 | comment | added | Dan Fox | If one broadens the context to include ethics in mathematical sciences so that it includes statistics, then there is a lot written. For example, Andrew Gelman's blog statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu is partly about the ethics of use and practice in statistics. | |
| Oct 1, 2021 at 9:10 | answer | added | coudy | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 1, 2021 at 9:05 | history | edited | Igor Khavkine | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 1, 2021 at 7:00 | answer | added | Gerry Myerson | timeline score: 4 | |
| Dec 18, 2019 at 21:08 | vote | accept | user142929 | ||
| Dec 2, 2019 at 1:06 | comment | added | darij grinberg | Ethics in pure maths is almost entirely about issues like plagiarism/stolen valor, competitive backstabbing, fairness in hiring and mentorship, etc., as in the links @GerryMyerson presented (and also various threads on academia.stackexchange and retractionwatch.com/?s=mathematics ). Applied maths is likely to be more "interesting" from an ethical point of view, to the point that applications are actually useful, but you'll just see a spectrum of opinions and very few universally accepted guidelines. There is no theory here, and no reason to expect a theory to be of any use. | |
| Dec 2, 2019 at 0:47 | answer | added | Gerry Myerson | timeline score: 5 | |
| Nov 29, 2019 at 13:35 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Nov 28, 2019 at 22:40 | history | reopened |
Francois Ziegler Gerry Myerson Sergei Akbarov Tom Leinster Alain Valette |
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| Nov 27, 2019 at 22:30 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | @Sergei, we're not discussing questions of ethics of mathematics here, we're just collecting them. | |
| Nov 27, 2019 at 17:47 | comment | added | user142929 | Many thanks for your comment @SergeiAkbarov , I've just asked my question as a reference request, I'm not a professor or PhD student, I am the voice that asked for it without more intention than the informative. | |
| Nov 27, 2019 at 17:39 | comment | added | user142929 | @FedericoPoloni with all respect my question is just a reference request motivated after I've seen a Mooc course. My question is similar than other reference request than were asked in MathOverflow. I think that to promote a new Stack Exchange site to accept my post is wrong, the best solution is to consider that my question is reasonable. | |
| Nov 27, 2019 at 15:57 | comment | added | Federico Poloni | @SergeiAkbarov From the help center (emphasis mine): "If your question is not specifically on-topic for MathOverflow, it may be on topic for another Stack Exchange site. If no site currently exists that will accept your question, you may commit to or propose a new site at Area 51". | |
| Nov 27, 2019 at 15:02 | comment | added | Sergei Akbarov | I don't know if the questions of ethics of mathematics should be discussed here, but somewhere they must be discussed. | |
| Nov 27, 2019 at 13:58 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Todd Trimble | ||
| Nov 27, 2019 at 12:05 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | @YCor the question is a reference request. Polemical discussions and "questionable statements" would be non-answers, liable to be voted down and deleted. Do you see any polemics or questionable statements in the three answers that were posted before the question got closed? | |
| Nov 27, 2019 at 11:06 | comment | added | user142929 | And I wash my hands @YCor , my question should be useful as a reference for many mathematicians, I'm not a professional mathematician. I was posting my question as aseptically as I could. | |
| Nov 27, 2019 at 9:33 | comment | added | Federico Poloni | I think that this is a question about research-level ethics, not research-level mathematics. | |
| Nov 27, 2019 at 9:30 | comment | added | YCor | Despite its possible relevance to math research, this question is very likely to attract polemical discussions and questionable statements, and therefore I approve its closure. | |
| Nov 27, 2019 at 9:20 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| Nov 27, 2019 at 9:04 | comment | added | user142929 | About you @MarkSapir and the other professors that voted to put on hold this question I believe that this site MathOverflow should be a safe space to ask objective questions about mathematics. My question is legitimate, I've the right to ask this question. I think that there are more issues about ethic in the research of mathematics that your previous simple words "do not steal". I the video that I've cited in previous comment are explained some aspects, I don't know if the source is from the book Recoltes et semailles. | |
| Nov 27, 2019 at 9:01 | history | edited | user142929 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 27, 2019 at 7:40 | comment | added | none | Norbert Wiener wrote extensively on ethics, such as in his book "The Human Use of Human Beings", though it was mostly not specifically about ethics in math research. He also had a weird novel "The Tempter" about a math professor becoming a patent troll. I don't remember it very well, but as a work of fiction and at other levels, I thought it was readable but not great. | |
| Nov 27, 2019 at 6:58 | history | closed |
LSpice Alex M. Alexandre Eremenko user1073 user6976 |
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| Nov 27, 2019 at 6:57 | comment | added | user6976 | There is nothing special about ethycs in math research. Basically "do not steal" with various versions. | |
| Nov 27, 2019 at 6:36 | comment | added | none | There is a book "Weapons of Math Destruction" by Cathy O'Neil of mathbabe.org, about various societal hazards of machine learning. Not so much about pure math research, but maybe of interest. | |
| Nov 27, 2019 at 6:24 | answer | added | none | timeline score: 10 | |
| Nov 26, 2019 at 21:07 | answer | added | Thomas Kalinowski | timeline score: 11 | |
| Nov 26, 2019 at 1:48 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | mathoverflow.net/questions/57337/… and mathoverflow.net/questions/64982/… and mathoverflow.net/questions/65021/… and mathoverflow.net/questions/191507/… and mathoverflow.net/questions/84982/permission-to-use-online-notes and mathoverflow.net/questions/72220/plagiarism-in-the-community (and a couple more, but that will do). | |
| Nov 26, 2019 at 1:46 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | Not so much for OP as for those voting to close, I note that questions concerning math and ethics have come up here before, and while some have been closed, many have been well-received. Especially considering that OP is asking for references and not for opinions, I don't see any reason to close this question. Here are some previous questions/answers where ethics was an issue: mathoverflow.net/questions/345049/… and mathoverflow.net/questions/41719/… (continued...) | |
| Nov 25, 2019 at 21:49 | comment | added | user142929 | Many thanks for your attention @GerryMyerson , my question is more about ethic in the context of the research in mathematics, but references for aspects similar than those that refers Wikipedia are welcome as companion. The only source that I've seen before posting this question was a (Mooc course) video (in Spanish) on YouTube from the official channel ULLmedia - Universidad de La Laguna and title 3.2 La financiación de la ciencia y la tecnología: Alexander Grothendieck (the date is 22nd March, 2019). | |
| Nov 25, 2019 at 21:01 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | You might find something useful at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics_in_mathematics | |
| Nov 25, 2019 at 16:05 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Nov 25, 2019 at 15:48 | answer | added | SBK | timeline score: 9 | |
| Nov 25, 2019 at 15:29 | history | asked | user142929 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |