"Pure maths be damned." The Washington Square News reports on the Courant Institute's ties (the Math department, specifically) to Wall Street, through fields like financial math and programs to train PhDs in the kind of mathematics valued by money managers. By the way, capitalism appears to be in crisis - though that didn't stop Yale's endowment from growing. At whose expense this time, we wonder...
(Wouldn't it be nice to have similar data on NYU...?
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