A Mathematician's Apology

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With major mathematicians holding ideas such as:
> 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.


A mathematician s apology

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