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I think by that definition every mathematician in the current day is funded, mission accomplished.

• stymaar 8d ago
  > every mathematician in the current day is funded, This is tautological, “mathematician” being defined in the modern world as someone paid to do mathematics… Notice that the modern world is able able to sustain significantly more mathematicians than when “mathematicians” used to mean “someone well-off enough to work on mathematics in their ample amount of free time without worrying about their subsistence”.
  • Dylan16807 8d ago
    > This is tautological, “mathematician” being defined in the modern world as someone paid to do mathematics… Note that I'm including all the ones that a normal definition would not call paid, but your definition does. But yes when a definition declares that everyone doing a thing is "funded", it does get pretty tautological and get in the way of arguments for actual funding.