论文标题
优先的优点
Virtues of Priority
论文作者
论文摘要
The conjecture that every elliptic curve with rational coefficients is a so-called modular curve -- since 2000 a theorem due in large part to Andrew Wiles and, in complete generality, to Breuil-Conrad-Diamond-Taylor -- has been known by various names: Weil Conjecture, Taniyama-Weil Conjecture, Shimura-Taniyama-Weil Conjecture, or Shimura-Taniyama猜想等。这种猜想的作者身份的问题是，其成果是费马特的最后一个定理，一直是优先纠纷的主题，通常是非常痛苦的，但是一种归因背后的原则（几乎）（几乎）从未被明确提出过。作者提出了一部以Alasdair MacIntyre的“美德伦理”启发的阅读，将每个属性分析为数学家社区所欣赏的特定价值或美德的表达。
The conjecture that every elliptic curve with rational coefficients is a so-called modular curve -- since 2000 a theorem due in large part to Andrew Wiles and, in complete generality, to Breuil-Conrad-Diamond-Taylor -- has been known by various names: Weil Conjecture, Taniyama-Weil Conjecture, Shimura-Taniyama-Weil Conjecture, or Shimura-Taniyama Conjecture, among others. The question of the authorship of this conjecture, one of whose corollaries is Fermat's Last Theorem, has been the subject of a priority dispute that has often been quite bitter, but the principles behind one attribution or another have (almost) never been made explicit. The author proposes a reading inspired in part by the "virtue ethics" of Alasdair MacIntyre, analyzing each of the attributions as the expression of a specific value, or virtue, appreciated by the community of mathematicians.
