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The Shocking State of Contemporary "Mathematics"
I just came back from attending the 1052nd AMS (sectional) meeting at Penn State, last weekend, and realized that the Kingdom of Mathematics is dead. Instead we have a disjoint union of narrow specialties , and people who know everything about nothing, and nothing about anything (except their very narrow acre). Not…
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Math & AlgorithmsSociety, Policy & Culture2009
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
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| Oct 31, 2009 | The Shocking State of Contemporary "Mathematics" by andreyf | 55 | 40 |
