Alas, broad grassroots movements here on Twitter are not going to solve the problem. More first-rate mathematicians must care intensely.
When "managed" by society, no art flourishes. Its survival depends upon according complete freedom to those who devote themselves to it.
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Some may abuse this freedom, but great artists use it to devise constraints for themselves. They have no wish to play tennis without a net.
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The key point is that no one -- certainly no education bureaucrat -- knows better than a great artist how to devise fruitful constraints.
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That's a nice thought, but history says otherwise. Art and math have always depended on social conditions and constraints.
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