Of interest:
Discovered mathematician Serge Lang
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serge_Lang
I recall having seen many Springer-Verlag math text books by him,
though i've never happened to have read one of his.
It turns out, he's quite a controversial guy. Check out his “File”,
where he debunk several other prominent scientists of scam. Ok, i like
Lang now. Check out his interview here:
http://www.dipmat.unipg.it/~mamone/sci-dem/archivio/la-li.pdf
Shady academic papers and the ugly fighting among prominent academic
figures abound. In the past all the way back to the Greeks, to today.
For example, the Sokal Affair
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_Affair
debunks the so-called post-modernistic philosophical shit. For another
recent account, the world's top mathematicians clawing each other's
eyes out. See subsections at Shing-Tung Yau and Grigori Perelman.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shing-Tung_Yau
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Perelman
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