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This is related to the cost of doing experiments and running a lab. My wife is a bio-physicist and goes through $1k is supplies on a good day. In contrast you c
by chrisBob 9y ago
This is related to the cost of doing experiments and running a lab. My wife is a bio-physicist and goes through $1k is supplies on a good day. In contrast you could run a math lab on almost nothing.
- tincholio 9y agoThere's this old joke about math departments being the second cheapest to run, since you only need pen, paper, and a trash can. The cheapest department to run is Philosophy, since you only need pen and paper.
- xyzzyz 9y agoThe biggest cost of running math department is travel costs, but then again, biophysicist probably spend just as much on that.
- BeetleB 9y ago>This is related to the cost of doing experiments and running a lab. Only tangentially. In my engineering department, the expectations on the professor who ran a lab with heavy and expensive equipment were no greater than the one whose work was all computational and just needed a bunch of PC's to run simulations on.