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I wonder why he doesn't have a secretary. Isn't he like one of the top mathematicians in the world? Why the heck are they having him do drudge work?
by worrycue 4y ago
I wonder why he doesn't have a secretary. Isn't he like one of the top mathematicians in the world? Why the heck are they having him do drudge work?
- glitchc 4y agoProfs don't get secretaries. There's usually one admin assistant for the entire dept. and they're busy with applications for admissions, scholarships, grants, etc.
- CamperBob2 4y agoOr grad students, for that matter. The notion that Tao should have to monkey around with Excel in person is just bonkers.
- itsacomment 4y agoHe'd be a seriously bad professor if he wasted the time of the people he was supposed to be teaching with copying badly formatted data for a talk.