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Yes, my impression is that what is supposed to save mathematics is that its practitioners become Grothendiecks. The problem is,…
Adding Michael’s and Brad’s numbers give at least 6 top-20 as measured by PGR. The original post pointed to “at…
Mathematicians should feel free to correct me here, but if AI is replacing tens to hundreds of human-authored publications per…
Re Berlin’s amazingly mealy-mouthed reference for Hart. I used to have a sort of cultural awareness test for friends. I…
Princeton also now requires the GRE.
It’s worth noting that NYU, MIT, Rutgers, UT and Harvard (prior to pausing admissions) all list the GRE as required…
To be clear by “managerial class” I mean upper management. Deans are often in a difficult position between the faculty…
…though some "merely" conservative philosophers are trying to resist, but the comment section makes clear it was an abject failure. (Remarkably, the site administrators banned only one of the lunatic commenters! Racists and anti-semites, beyond the already notorious "Jacques", are all over the place at the new StormFront for philosophers!)
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