I think all is equal. Yes, you learn calculus in high school now, but we also have Geometric Algebra coming back since the 80s, which allows for succinct symbol

I think all is equal. Yes, you learn calculus in high school now, but we also have Geometric Algebra coming back since the 80s, which allows for succinct symbolic expression of geometrical calculations. This and the field of computation, which for the mathematician is like the telescope was for the astronomers of old. I think the room for discovery, great discoveries, is still within reach as before. New tools, new concepts, and new challenges. I am still amazed at what could be hand calc'ed or graphed by some of these incredible mathematicians in the past. Amazing. The fact that we have institutions and foundations like the Santa Fe Institute and The Long Now among many others, show the big questions are still being tackled, but of course, many of us while away in the trenches of technology, and its hard to see what the brightest are up to sometimes.