[FOM] 827: Tangible Incompleteness Restarted/1

[Joe Shipman]

But graph theory is quite strongly connected to computation theory, which does not elicit contempt from Fields medalists.

It’s my impression that every area of math has sub-areas which “are of interest only to specialists”, and that graph theory is not particularly bad in this respect.

— JS

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> On Sep 24, 2019, at 1:47 PM, Timothy Y. Chow <tchow at math.princeton.edu> wrote:
> 
> Contempt for subfields of mathematics is often correlated to a perception that those subfields are largely disconnected from the rest of mathematics.  There are certainly large chunks of graph theory that are disconnected in this way (ironically, I'm using a graph-theoretic metaphor to describe the situation).