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Re:The Origins of SageMath; I am leaving academia to build a... by CamperBob2 on Saturday June 11, 2016 @10:47PM (#11886390)
Mathematicians who write software are no more likely to be "truly making the world better" than those who prove theorems and teach hundreds or thousands of students every year.

How can this be true in the case of a mathematician who writes something that many/most of the others use?

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Re:The Origins of SageMath; I am leaving academia to build a... by vzcx on Sunday June 12, 2016 @05:06AM (#11887295)
It follows by transitivity!
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