It is equally foolish to argue that because mathematics has major technological applications, its growth ought to be "managed" by society.
Please name a human pursuit that has no politics. Please explain the political motivations of Niels Henrik Abel. And of the theory of rings.
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I'm not going to try to boil down multiple fields of scholarship into a series of tweets. 1/
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But yes, every human pursuit has politics, some obvious and some less so, and how those politics are recognized and treated matters. 2/
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