Talk:Robert Dixon (mathematician)

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Books

His books are important as is the question of plagiarism from Damien Hirst.

Actually there is quite a lot about Dixon;s work on oterh pages (e.g. Fermat spirals but it is not always attributed correctly

Aa42john (talk) 09:34, 16 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You can discuss the AfD nomination here. I will be happy to withdraw the nomination if you can find references which show that the subject is notable. The discussion of plagiarism from Damien Hirst seems at least moderately notable, but that doesn't seem to pass WP:ONEEVENT, as I explained on the AfD page. GiftigerWunsch [TALK] 09:42, 16 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

References

Robert Dixon has received coverage not on one but on two different occasions, 2003 and 2006, after accusing Damien Hirst of copying his work. There were articles dedicated to this, as well as ongoing mentions subsequently, when the issue of Hirst's practice of "appropriation" was discussed. See Evening Standard (2003),[1] The Times (2003),[2], The Daily Telegraph (2003),[3] Evening Standard (2006),[4] The Times (2006),[5] The Guardian (2006),[6] Channel 4 (2006),[7] Metro (2006),[8] RTV, Slovenia (2006),[9] RTV Slovenia (2006),[10] Daily Mail (6 June 2007),[11], Daily Mail (11 June 2007),[12] El Universal, Mexico (2007), [13], RTV, Slovenia (2007),[14] Evening Standard (2007),[15] The Guardian (2007), [16] The Times (2007).[17]

I am not familiar with his work in mathematics per se, but a quick search shows he is mentioned in Computers in Art, Design, and Animation (1989),[18]. He has a chapter in Fivefold Symmetry (1992).[19] He has articles in New Scientist (1982),[20] New Scientist (1983),[21] New Scientist (1985).[22] There are Google Books results for Mathographics,[23] which also has 13,500 Google hits.[24]

Ty 00:59, 17 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

There were two incidents, the first was in 2003 and the second in 2006. Furthermore, coverage has been enduring. The 2003 event was still being referred to three years later (before the second took place), as in The Times. Dixon's dispute has continued to be cited subsequently, e.g. in an article on intellectual property law: Wade, Alex. The Guardian (London), p.1, 10 March 2008. As well as Mathographics (Google Scholar), Dixon is the author of The Baumgarten Corruption (Google Scholar, Google Books, Google hits). He has also written for Leonardo,[25][26][27] and Times Higher Education.

Ty 19:53, 23 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Renaming

I propose moving the article to Robert Dixon (computer artist) as this is what he is called in major sources. Ty 09:56, 24 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]