Timeline for How does one justify funding for mathematics research?
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| Feb 10, 2017 at 13:17 | comment | added | Joseph Van Name | I voted to close this question as being "primarily opinion based" since this question is clearly off topic. | |
| Jul 17, 2014 at 12:31 | comment | added | Sebastien Palcoux | I'm sorry for this "cold shower". If you want, you can express your opinions on the politics.se post Why fund the research in pure mathematics? | |
| Jul 16, 2014 at 2:54 | comment | added | Todd Trimble | I see you are relatively new to MO (and so welcome!). But maybe I should say at this point (wearing now my moderator's hat) that socio-political opinions -- and your post could be read this way -- are considered strictly off-topic. Quite typically they are deleted. I'll let it go (and will comment no further on this), but let me refer you to mathoverflow.net/help which you can read to get a sense of the norms and guidelines here. | |
| Jul 15, 2014 at 23:56 | comment | added | Alex Williams | I understand your point of view. The last line of this posting's description "not just so I can write more honest research proposals, or in case it comes up in an argument, but so I have an answer for myself" lead me to believe that my post was relevant. Sometimes things become clear when you attempt to answer them from a more general point of view. | |
| Jul 15, 2014 at 21:00 | comment | added | Todd Trimble | (A correct answer?) The question was about justifying funding for mathematics, which properly would take a different form to how one would justify funding for cancer research or for the fine arts, say. As I read it, your answer is an umbrella response on the merits or demerits of public funding in general (and insofar as it is not really about mathematics any more, I think it is arguably off-topic). Meanwhile, your assertion that the question is overspecialized is, of course, an opinion and one which is I think more in the purview of MO meta, if you really want to take it up. | |
| Jul 15, 2014 at 20:38 | comment | added | Alex Williams | The question is overspecialized. It would be like asking "How does one justify funding research on Homological Algebra?". One might be tempted to discuss the merits of Homological Algebra. However, that doesn't change the fact that my answer and presumably any correct answer to the posted question would answer this specialized question. | |
| Jul 15, 2014 at 19:32 | comment | added | Todd Trimble | This answer has nothing particularly to do with mathematics, does it? | |
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