{"id":216,"date":"2019-08-10T05:51:45","date_gmt":"2019-08-10T05:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/borovik.net\/selecta\/?p=216"},"modified":"2026-08-10T05:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T05:56:13","slug":"why-arent-mathematicians-more-well-known","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borovik.net\/selecta\/2019\/08\/10\/why-arent-mathematicians-more-well-known\/","title":{"rendered":"Why aren&#8217;t mathematicians more well known?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My answer to question on Quora: <strong>Why aren&#8217;t mathematicians more well known?<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"q-text qu-display--block qu-wordBreak--break-word qu-textAlign--start\">Well, this applies to every high-level specialism. Do you know many designers of new electronics? Or neurosurgeons?<\/p>\n<p class=\"q-text qu-display--block qu-wordBreak--break-word qu-textAlign--start\">This is a very uncomfortable social issue: development of technology, and perhaps the survival (or not) of humanity \u2014 critically depends on work of a very small (in relation to the total population of the Earth), and increasingly so, number of people. Mathematics is everywhere around us, but it is totally invisible to 99.99% percents of its users. Mathematics hardwired into a mobile phone ( I am not even talking about smartphones) and in mobile phones networks is beyond understanding of 99% of graduates from mathematics departments of British universities \u2014 and now there are more mobile phones in the world than toothbrushes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My answer to question on Quora: Why aren&#8217;t mathematicians more well known? Well, this applies to every high-level specialism. Do you know many designers of new electronics? Or neurosurgeons? This is a very uncomfortable social issue: development of technology, and perhaps the survival (or not) of humanity \u2014 critically depends on work of a very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borovik.net\/selecta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borovik.net\/selecta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borovik.net\/selecta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borovik.net\/selecta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borovik.net\/selecta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/borovik.net\/selecta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217,"href":"https:\/\/borovik.net\/selecta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions\/217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borovik.net\/selecta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borovik.net\/selecta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borovik.net\/selecta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}