From: "Nicholas J. Kuhn" Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 16:33:02 -0400 > From: "Carlos Prieto (113)" > Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 09:58:33 -0500 (CDT)... > 2. Are there statistical data on the density in mathematics > departments, resp. countries, of specialists in the different > areas of math? Some significant information about mathematics in US departments, particularly new Ph.D. production and hiring, can be gleaned from the extensive employment tables published yearly in the Notices of the AMS. This is broken down by speciality, so one can see if, say the `Group I' departments produced more number theorists or topologists, and if folks in probability really get all the good jobs. With more work, but probably not too much, from the NSF website, I bet one could figure out the numbers of people in different broad math specialities funded by the NSF. This is, of course, only giving you info about the US. Do other countries have such public info? Regarding importance of articles, using Math Sci Net, one can easily see, e.g., exactly how many articles since 2000 were published in Invent. with subject class 55. Is this of value?? Nick Kuhn