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Old 09-14-2005, 01:06 AM
chezlaw chezlaw is offline
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Default Re: What\'s up with Sklansky and physicists?

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Ever tried to get funding for research?

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So they care about funding enough to pretend they care whether or not their work has useful applications.

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If they are applied mathematicians, they care very much about applications. If they are pure mathematicians, usefulness outside of mathematics itself is usually not an issue.

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Its based on a small sample but I believe that's not as true as it used to be (or should be).

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