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2 HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
2 HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
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A brief overview of the history of the mathematical sciences in the United States suggests why this is the case. The statistical and historical data presented in this chapter and on occasion in the rest of this report are taken from the annual AMS-MAA surveys in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society (1980-1991)
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In much of Europe, however, the emphasis was on research, and faculty had a normal teaching load approximately half that of their American counterparts. In the mid- to late 1930s, the political conditions in Nazi Germany induced a number of mathematicians at universities in German-controlled areas to emigrate to the United States.
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The new disciplines of operations research and computer science were born in the war effort. By the end of World War IT, the number of mathematicians who had come to the United States from countries affected by the war totaled only 120 to 150.
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Strong departments of statistics also emerged during this period, among them the departments at the University of North Carolina, Iowa State University, and the University of California, Berkeley. The challenges facing the United States in the 1960s to be first on the moon and to develop the technology base for economic and military security strongly influenced both research and PhD production in the mathematical sciences.
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Despite success in both research and advanced study, the mathematical sciences in the United States were now unable to attract sufficiently many domestic graduate students for renewal. In addition, a serious imbalance had developed in federal funding of the mathematical sciences as compared with other sciences.
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In that same year, 51% and 49% of the graduate students in physics and chemistry, respectively, received federal support, whereas only 18% of the mathematical sciences graduate students received federal support. A reassessment, Renewing U.S.
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