I'm sick. I find it hilarious that a mathematician is caught plagiarizing.
Scientists do it all the time, because they are very bad at paraphrasing others' writing. If I were a researcher trying to publish, I'd be a pretty good plagiarist. http://www.slate.com/id/2153313/?nav=tap3
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 58_pf.html
BTW, more hail to Harvard. The author caught plagiarizing is a Harvard man...