Timeline for Quantitatively speaking, which subject area in mathematics is currently the most research active?
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| Jan 5, 2010 at 22:05 | comment | added | Georges Elencwajg | Dear Anonymous, I'd like to be as optimistic as you, but I have the sad feeling that the barriers between different fields are getting higher, not lower. Whereas Euler could make fantastic contributions to fluid mechanics and number theory (among many, many other domains), I'm afraid it is improbable that a specialist in the classification of finite groups could win the Clay prize for the Navier-Stokes equations. I hasten to say that I'm equiignorant in both domains and that I would love to be proved wrong... | |
| Jan 5, 2010 at 14:33 | comment | added | Qiaochu Yuan | I agree. The undergraduate curriculum would get a lot more done if it stressed this from the get-go. | |
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| Jan 5, 2010 at 14:04 | history | answered | Anonymous | CC BY-SA 2.5 |