Tai's Model
In 1994, Nutritional science, nutrition scholar Mary M. Tai published a paper in the journal ''Diabetes Care'' entitled "A Mathematical Model for the Determination of Total Area Under Glucose Tolerance and Other Metabolic Curves". In the paper, Tai puts forth her discovery of "Tai's model", a method of estimating the area under a curve by dividing the area into simple polygons and summing their totals. Apparently unbeknownst to Tai (or her Scholarly peer review, peer reviewers and publisher), her "discovery" was in fact the trapezoidal rule, a basic method of calculus whose use dates back to Babylonian astronomy, Babylonian astronomers in 350 BCE. Several mathematicians replied to the paper in letters to the journal, objecting to the naming of "Tai's model" and the treatment of a method "used in undergraduate calculus courses" as a novel discovery in the field of diabetes care. A letter entitled "Tai's Formula is the Trapezoidal Rule" pointed out errors in Tai's representation of ...
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