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The article is missing mathematicians who do not publicize their results. These would mainly be mathematicians working for agencies like GCHQ, NSA, etc. If yo
by DanBC 6y ago
The article is missing mathematicians who do not publicize their results. These would mainly be mathematicians working for agencies like GCHQ, NSA, etc.
If you want to work on certain math problems, don't mind working for the government, and don't care about being published you can get good jobs with these kinds of agencies.
- black_puppydog 6y ago* and don't care about why these results will go unpublished
- unishark 6y agomeaning that everyone who works for the government would agree they are only enabling bad things?
- beefhash 6y ago* and don't have anything on your track record making it impossible to land this kind of job due to the security clearance required
- i_am_proteus 6y agoOr you are comfortable with why they will go unpublished.
- black_puppydog 6y agoof course, or that
- mcguire 6y agoOf course, in science, if it isn't published, it doesn't exist.
- carlosf 6y agoFinancial markets as well.
- fractionalhare 6y agoI know of a boutique proprietary trading firm wherein a researcher solved an open problem in probability but won't publish the results because it's integral to a trading strategy. That always gives me a chuckle :)