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There is a general consensus that Terrence Tao is on a whole other level than any other mathematician alive. Compared to the average salary of baseball, basketb

• joe_the_user 12y ago
  Oh, it may be that those math professors considered the best will have their salaries approach those of sport stars while median pay for those who teach classes continues to drop. This seems like part of the general trend to value the "rock stars" of every field while diminishing the field in general. Could mathematics get by with just the fifty or however many people there are now who are "truly on the next level" (or whatever is said). Perhaps when colleges have replaced with moocs (an appropriate name if you know rpgs).
  • w1ntermute 12y ago
    > This seems like part of the general trend to value the "rock stars" of every field while diminishing the field in general. This is precisely the topic of Tyler Cowen's Average is Over[0]: > Cowen forecasts that modern economies are delaminating into two groups: a small minority of highly educated and capable of working collaboratively with automated systems will become a wealthy aristocracy; the vast majority will earn little or nothing, surviving on low-priced goods created by the first group, living in shantytowns working with highly automated production systems. Cowen's blog, Marginal Revolution[1], is also worth a read. 0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_is_Over http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_is_Over 1: http://marginalrevolution.com/ http://marginalrevolution.com/
• mFixman 12y ago
  It's also extremely lower than what he could win if he went to "the dark side" and started working in finance or any other non-academic company.