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96. Steven Strogatz Thinks You Don’t Know What Math Is

People I (Mostly) Admire

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Is There a Hierarchy in Mathematics?

With economics, there's real hierarchy. The more abstract you are, by and large, the more respectedyou are. Is that same hierarchy present in math? Yeah. I think it may transcend R2 disciplines and just cut across the whole academy. It tends to be that the applied practitioners, often seen as the runts or something, but I like both parts of math. We do provide great problems for each other.

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