Timeline for How many mathematicians are there?
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| Jun 23 at 15:39 | comment | added | R. van Dobben de Bruyn | I think it should be pointed out that Math Genealogy has a very generous definition of mathematics PhDs. There were 12 students in my cohort (at the maths department), but MG lists 41 in my year at my institution. Besides adjacent topics like statistics, operations research, mathematics education, and computer science, there are even dissertations listed in geophysics, biology, and development economics. That's just in one year at one university. | |
| Oct 24, 2014 at 22:31 | comment | added | Michael | Not all Mathematics PhDs are working mathematicians or associated with academia. | |
| Jul 16, 2011 at 9:48 | comment | added | Dan Fox | I'd be careful using the MGP. I'll give some examples from my family, so I am very sure of the facts - one of my grandfathers, who was a chemist, and never published a math paper in his life, is listed in the MGP twice, as distinct persons - once as a student (his also listed advisor was not a mathematician either) and once as an advisor. My father, who is a physicist, and wrote exactly one paper that could be called math, is listed. So are 13 of his students - probably at most 1 or 2 is reasonably considered a mathematician, even if one regards many theoretical physicists as mathematicians. | |
| Mar 8, 2011 at 8:03 | comment | added | shuhalo | The dead mathematicians are probably neglegable, because of the exponential growth of the mathematics community. | |
| Nov 18, 2009 at 22:56 | vote | accept | Georges Elencwajg | ||
| Nov 18, 2009 at 22:56 | vote | accept | Georges Elencwajg | ||
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| Nov 14, 2009 at 9:01 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | The MGP used to be utterly inadequate for those who got their PhDs in the UK before the 1980s, it may have improved now. Also, there are odd gaps/bugs in some of the entries. It's useful and interesting but I'd be wary of using it for head counts | |
| Nov 14, 2009 at 8:45 | history | answered | Jose Capco | CC BY-SA 2.5 |