= A Mathematician's Apology
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With major mathematicians holding ideas such as:
\Q[[Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds. [...] It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to do something, to prove new theorems, to add to mathematics, and not to talk about what he or other mathematicians have done.]]
it is not surprise that the state of <STEM> education is so shit as of 2020, especially at the <the missing link between basic and advanced>! This also implies that the number of people that can appreciate any advanced mathematics research is tiny, and consequently so is the funding.