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1 Introduction and Historical Perspective
1 Introduction and Historical Perspective
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77-85. Computer science is not a branch of the mathematical sciences.
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However, most of the increase in mathematics enrollments was at the lower levels, with remedial enrollments in high school mathematics taught in college leading the way. The surge in the numbers of decrees awarded in the mathematical sciences in the late 1960s and early 1970s and the lack of establi shed employment markets for mathematicians outside of academe created more degree holders than there were jobs, especially at the doctoral level; in addition, part of the response to increased enrollments in mathematics courses was to let student-faculty ratios increase.
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Inflation on a weak mathematics employment market and better opportunities in other areas such as computer science spread quickly among U.S. students, and the numbers choosing mathematics as a major area of study began to decline.
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Said another way, liberal arts education especially mathematics education was becoming closer to professional education. However, the nonacademic employment market for mathematical scientists continued to be poorly understood and was invisible to many.
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The 1985 CBMS Survey reported that of the 3,750 Ph.D.s on the nation's full-time computer science faculty, 41 % had their doctorates in mathematics. Of the 2,200 Ph.D.s on the part-time computer science faculty, 61 % had their doctorates in mathematics.
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Computer science was emerging as a separate academic discipline. Many computer science programs had been formed within mathematical sciences departments, and the number of majors and the course enrollments were rising rapidly.
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Where possible in this report, mathematical sciences data have been separated from computer science data. It is not feasible to reconcile or explain all the differences Analysis of data in detail reveals differences that cannot be reconciled, but the implications of these differences appear to be minor.
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The NRC project Mathematical Sciences in the Year 2000 (MS 2000) , of which this report BOX 1.3 Statistics The discipline of statistics is included in this report as a part of the mathematical sciences, pnncipally because statistics has an intellectual base in mathematics, mathematics students are the principal source of statistics graduate students, and significant federal funding for academic research that develops fundamental statistical concepts and methods comes from the "mathematical sciences" units of federal agencies (NRC, 1984~.
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