Timeline for How many mathematicians are there?
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| Apr 10, 2018 at 11:59 | comment | added | Alexandre Eremenko | @Dan Fox: I agree. It is hard to define precisely who are "mathematicians", all these numbers are only rough estimates. | |
| Apr 10, 2018 at 5:46 | comment | added | Dan Fox | Many of those listed in MR are probably better characterized as statisticians, physicists, or electrical engineers (among other disciplines) than as mathematicians. | |
| Dec 8, 2012 at 17:22 | comment | added | Alexandre Eremenko | My experience shows that there are not too many non-math papers included in MathRev (much less than in Zentralblatt). But of course the distinction between a mathematician and a person doing mathematics in some other field is sometimes fuzzy. | |
| Dec 8, 2012 at 16:43 | comment | added | user9072 | MR also (in particular since the somewhat recent expansion) includes various journals that are not or not only mathematics. So, that not too few of these authors should not be mathematicians but scientists in other fields. | |
| Dec 8, 2012 at 16:30 | history | answered | Alexandre Eremenko | CC BY-SA 3.0 |