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From: reggie@pdnbah.UUCP (George Leach)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: U.S. Mathematicians dying breed
Summary: Any correlation between Math and CS PhD Trends?
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Date: 9 Dec 87 14:59:28 GMT
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In article <2376@killer.UUCP> elg@killer.UUCP (Eric Green) writes:
>[excerpted from an AP news article in the local newspaper:]

>An annual survey found that nationwide only 362 U.S. citizens got doctorates
>in math during the 1986-1987 school year. 

     Has anyone taken a look at trends in Math and EE doctorates relative to
CS doctorates?  About twenty years ago there were no CS departments and
therefore no CS PhD's.  Over the years there has been an increase in the
number of departments granting PhD's in Computer Science.  This fact alone
would account for declines in other fields that are related to CS.


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