As an applied mathematician who went into industry and has friends still in academia it's quite interesting.
My view is that the people who think doing maths is about being able to knit maths quickly and correctly are quite sad.
But for the people like me who bound themselves to computers a long time ago, it feels like a revolution. Sure you might now be simply tending your garden of machines and allocating capital and resources like a Gardiner picks seeds for various sunny spots but you can now do a lot of stuff and for people were good at gardening but not knitting it is a game changer.
My view is that the people who think doing maths is about being able to knit maths quickly and correctly are quite sad.
But for the people like me who bound themselves to computers a long time ago, it feels like a revolution. Sure you might now be simply tending your garden of machines and allocating capital and resources like a Gardiner picks seeds for various sunny spots but you can now do a lot of stuff and for people were good at gardening but not knitting it is a game changer.