Timeline for How many mathematicians are there?
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| Feb 12, 2020 at 13:27 | comment | added | Nate Eldredge | The Labor Department has a standard survey that they use to gather information about various occupations, which is where the notes like "comfortable offices" come from. I was once asked to participate in this survey and filled out a very long questionnaire about my job, including things like the average number of hours per week spent climbing ladders! | |
| Apr 10, 2018 at 5:58 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | I have added links to Internet Archive to prevent link rot. There are several versions available. The closest ones to the date of the original post are from November 2, 2009 and December 30, 2009. | |
| Apr 10, 2018 at 5:51 | history | edited | Martin Sleziak | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 10, 2018 at 5:39 | history | edited | Kevin O'Bryant | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 28, 2018 at 2:13 | comment | added | Kimball | The link is broken, but the current data says (from 2016) there are only 2730 of us: bls.gov/oes/current/oes152021.htm Sad :( | |
| Aug 21, 2012 at 21:43 | comment | added | Andrew D. King | @Pete Georgia Tech might single-handedly make Georgia an overachieving state, but even 10,000 seems low. | |
| Aug 18, 2012 at 19:44 | comment | added | Feldmann Denis | Adding the information "Usually working in comfortable offices" could explain those low figures | |
| Nov 3, 2010 at 7:16 | comment | added | sigoldberg1 | See nsf.gov/pubs/1998/nsf9895/math.htm , according to which there were 10,000 highly active research mathematicians worldwide. 15k PhD level mathematicians in the US in 1996. | |
| Jan 10, 2010 at 14:41 | comment | added | Pete L. Clark | The number 3160 is implausibly low. Without breaking a sweat, I was able to find 260 people with PhDs and current teaching jobs at math departments in Georgia. Georgia has only 3% of the nation's population (and is, alas, not renowned as an intellectual mecca), suggesting that a more accurate number would be on the order of 10,000 or more. | |
| Nov 17, 2009 at 14:42 | comment | added | John D. Cook | Maybe there are only 3,160 people who listed "mathematician" as their profession on their tax return or some other official document. How many mathematicians call themselves mathematicians? I imagine many would give their title as "professor", "research scientist", not to mention applied titles like "financial analyst" etc. | |
| Nov 17, 2009 at 14:35 | comment | added | Michael Lugo | That number seems too low to me. A lot of the people that many of us would think of as "mathematicians" are probably counted as teachers in this survey; the source above says that "For example, there were about 54,000 jobs as postsecondary mathematical science teachers in 2006." | |
| Nov 17, 2009 at 14:20 | history | answered | Kevin O'Bryant | CC BY-SA 2.5 |