Comment by qsort
6 hours ago
At least from my point of view (in the industry, not academia) this is actually the opposite. Math graduates tend to be smart and humble and I respect them a lot. Sometimes it almost feels like math and physics are the last "real" degrees left.
Similar - I found math majors to be fairly humble. Yes, there's always the exception, but I found them to be fairly fun folks.
Physics majors, in my experience, had a significantly higher arrogance level.
I'm talking about professors at R1 schools and Ivies to be clear.
Yes, and those are the ones who didn’t make it to researcher.
Who's to say that you can't go into industry and not be a researcher? You don't have to stay in academia to do research. Many companies and industries tend to publish papers and some even work with universities for research.
No I’m saying the top tier mathematicians tend to work in academia because that’s where the most math is done (general trend with exceptions).
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I don't think that's what GP was saying, but I could be wrong.