H. Peter Gumm |
Philipps-Universität Marburg |
Plagiarism or „naturally given“ ? Decide for yourself … |
World Scientific has recently published a book: K. Denecke and S. Wismath: Universal Algebra and Coalgebra, Large portions of this book are unauthorized word-by-word copies from my text Universelle Coalgebra which forms an extended appendix to the book Th. Ihringer: Allgemeine Algebra - Mit einem Anhang über The authors did not ask for my permission nor that of the publisher, to use my work. Instead they Fact is, that practically all of the material on coalgebras, including structure, text, whole paragraphs, Here are some comments from colleagues who were alerted of this case of plagiarism: |
"... I have finally found out how to browse through the book |
" ... I have taken a closer look myself now on the overlap |
" ... This is dreadful. [I do not have access to the book itself |
Excerpts of the plagiarism are demonstrated on the following pages, so read on …. |