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Not being a native speaker, I have to ask: Is a "professor" not someone who at least majored in math ?
by eldina 15y ago
Not being a native speaker, I have to ask: Is a "professor" not someone who at least majored in math ?
- groovy2shoes 15y agoA professor is a "high-ranking" teacher at a university. You can have a professor in pretty much any field, so there are math professors.
- eldina 15y agoOk. Then I think it is a little sad that a math professor can now nothing about category theory.
- xyzzyz 15y agoWhy? Would you say the same thing about, say, ergodic theory, languages, automata and computation theory, analytic number theory, harmonic analysis, bordism and cobordism, algebraic K-theory, de Rham cohomology, Diophantine approximation, model theory and theory of forcing, descriptive set theory, algebraic geometry, representation theory... I could go on like this forever. People tend not to know that most of the stuff a math graduate learned was already known by 30s, and category theory was only starting to become anything close to popular in 50s - 60s. People also tend not to know just how much math research have been done, especially in last 70 years.