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Re:To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics by srssays on Thursday February 02, 2017 @05:38PM (#13555593)
That definition is circular. Of course research-level mathematics is done in academia, but there is a much larger field of applied mathematics that is done in industry.
Re:To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics by xyzzyz on Thursday February 02, 2017 @05:58PM (#13555779)
That stuff has very little to do with 90% of academia math. Also, if you specialized and are interested in a certain field of math, the barrier to switch to another field is enormous. On the other hand, 90% of the applied mathematics done in industry is much, much simpler, and very often a trivialized version of what you do in academia, so one could imagine switching to be possible, but what's the joy of doing that?

(I have a MS in Math, my field was algebraic geometry. I considered a career in math research, but the industry was paying too well for it to be a reasonable)