$10M AI Mathematical Olympiad Prize

Re:$10M AI Mathematical Olympiad Prize by Davidzheng on Monday November 27, 2023 @09:54AM (#38432913)

I think it's a very unfair assessment to make from these two examples. I think it's like saying Silicon Valley has been shutting down for a while and providing two examples of startups. I will say from my personal impression as someone in pure math, I disagree with this statement.

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Re:$10M AI Mathematical Olympiad Prize by auggierose on Monday November 27, 2023 @12:44PM (#38435437)

I don't know what "fair" has to do with that. These are two examples that caught my attention, and I might be wrong that this constitutes a trend. If you have data that says otherwise, please share.

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Re:$10M AI Mathematical Olympiad Prize by Davidzheng on Monday November 27, 2023 @12:56PM (#38435616)

I think the funding in pure math is not going down in recent years. Nor are math departments much smaller than they were say ten years ago. Otherwise I'm sure how best to give evidence of math departments not shutting down! Do I list healthy math departments?

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Re:$10M AI Mathematical Olympiad Prize by auggierose on Monday November 27, 2023 @01:28PM (#38436108)

I guess this would be a case of applied math ;-)

Joking aside, of course it is not on you to provide evidence. I would probably start with seeing how many universities have pure math departments over a time axis from now back to 2000 or so.

It might even be that the total funding increases, but is more centralised in the big universities. So a total funding timeline would also be good.

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