Timeline for What's a mathematician to do?
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| Mar 28 at 6:32 | history | edited | Martin Sleziak | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
http -> https (the question was bumped anyway)
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| Dec 3, 2020 at 9:24 | history | edited | David | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Improved the latex
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| Oct 30, 2010 at 4:02 | comment | added | Thierry Zell | @Alex: good point, sad as I am to admit it. | |
| Oct 27, 2010 at 0:54 | comment | added | Alex B. | That article by Terrence Tao is a wonderful read. But particularly the sentence that Thierry Zell is quoting seems a bit too optimistic to me. Until one becomes a tenured professor, mathematics is exactly the sort of sport that Prof. Tao doesn't want it to be. That's just the brutal truth of any kind of competition for limited places. So while we like to think of ourselves as idealists, who do research with the sole aim of advancing knowledge, in practice many people are forced to spend time on "routine" maths to get enough publications, rather than on the things they find most interesting. | |
| Oct 26, 2010 at 19:29 | comment | added | Thierry Zell | Also worth quoting from the same article: "It’s also good to remember that professional mathematics is not a sport" | |
| Oct 26, 2010 at 18:59 | comment | added | Qiaochu Yuan | +1; Terence Tao's career advice is always worth a read. | |
| Oct 26, 2010 at 17:46 | history | answered | Beren Sanders | CC BY-SA 2.5 |