"Mathematicians Didn't Ask for This" Statement Sparks Backlash: Mathematicians Don't Own Math
cephaloform · x · 2026-10-09
Noahpinion slams a STEM organization's claim that "mathematicians did not ask for this work to be done": since when is math only done at the request of professional mathematicians? Mathematicians don't own mathematics. jdpressman calls it the most seething humanities-professor-like statement ever from a STEM organization, thoroughly discrediting, joking about a second dissolution of the monasteries.