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Re:What should we tell our students? by curt15 on Friday October 09, 2026 @07:26AM (#50018969)
> Mathematics was already not financially well rewarded,

Then why are frontier labs ploughing millions into racing human math researchers when they're already cash-strapped? What's the ROI for that?

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Re:What should we tell our students? by yuuu on Friday October 09, 2026 @10:34AM (#50021103)
It’s good marketing because people perceive mathematicians as the smartest of the smart.
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