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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