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The File: Case Study in Correction (1977–1979)

By Serge Lang (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York
Year
1981
ISBN
978-0-387-90607-2, 978-1-4613-8145-7
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4613-8145-7
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
42 MB (43848071 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
712\689
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-08-01 04:00:00
generalMathematics

Description

The File is a collection of documents from a major dispute involving a number of American college professors, mainly mathematicians, statisticians,and sociologists. The controversy was ignited by the mathematician Serge Lang's reaction to a questionnaire, "The 1977 Survey of the American Professoriate", distributed by E. C. Ladd of the University of Connecticut and S. M. Lipset of Stanford. The ensuing discussion - in part acrimonious and personal - soon involved a large group of active and passive participants, and included issues such as survey techniques, evaluation of academic work, public and political honesty, and McCarthyism at Harvard.

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