This was what a colleague wrote today in some discussion of university life:<\/p>\n
“I think the biggest problem is that the University effectively values academics time as zero.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
My response:<\/p>\n
IMHO, this is indeed the core problem.<\/p>\n
This is the Executive Summary of my paper arXiv:2103.04101v1<\/a> [math.HO] on 6 March 2021:<\/p>\n
Executive Summary<\/strong>. This paper is written in lockdown and can serve as a testimony in support of the apparently self-evident, but largely ignored principle:<\/p>\n
*The most important resource for a (pure) mathematician\u2019s research is uninterrupted time for thinking.*<\/p>\n
University administrators and research funding bodies systematically ignore it, and the bureaucratic burden imposed by them strangulates mathematics research. A short breathing space provided by lockdown made miracles.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
And, in my paper, I provide evidence,\u00a0 and, I think, pretty convincing (at least to mathematicians), in support of this my claim. I did some of the best work of my life because, thanks to lockdowns and retirement, I took back control of my time.<\/p>\n
This is what mathematicians have to fight for:\u00a0taking back control of our time.<\/strong><\/p>\n
This post is copied from my Substack<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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