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5.~. Vitality of the Mathematical Sciences The panel u ishes to emphasize that US mathematical research is thriving in both quality and opportunities.
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The most-prominent reason for the sudden worsening of the job market in 1990 is obvious: an oversupply of new PhDs relative to the availability of tenure-track positions in colleges and universities. The number of PhDs produced by US mathematics departments began to increase in the middle 1980s, rose during the early l990s, and has shown signs of instability recently, as shown in figure 3 (see section 5.5~.
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1100 1 000 900 800. ~ 700 - _ 15% 14% 13% 12% 11°~ 10% 9% 8% 7% 6% 5% 4% 3o/o 2% 1% n°/ 1993 Figure 3: Number of PhDs produced by US mathematics departments, spr~ng of year shown 1994 1995 1 1 1 , /, \ ~ / 1 1 _~_ ~ / ~ \ I / .
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. During 19941995, there were 240 tenure-track positions for new doctoral recipients in US doctorate-granting departments in the mathematical sciences and 1 84 non-tenure-track positions.
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