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For what it's worth, I also have a PhD in mathematics and I also ultimately left academia with some disappointment at the gap between what it is and my sense or
by Chinjut 2y ago
For what it's worth, I also have a PhD in mathematics and I also ultimately left academia with some disappointment at the gap between what it is and my sense or fantasy of what it once was or could be.
- esd_g0d 2y agoDo tell more... does it have to do with hyperspecialization, not being able to get fluent in a large enough proportion of the field as was the case in Euler's time, say?
- Chinjut 2y agoNo, while it may have been fun to be a generalist in Euler's era, that wasn't bothersome to me. To be clear, the issues I found in academia had little to do with math specifically, and affected academia broadly. The usual issues you've likely heard about dwindling ability to make a comfortable career of it without a great deal of luck.