Why mathematicians do not hype their research on social media like all of the other scientific fields?
I asked my brother who is researching math and he's quite mad about it, where his answers are like these:
Mathematical research is complicated and takes a very long time to read. Hence, noone will leave any kind of response to these research if being publicized.
Mathematicians saying wrong things is extremely unethical and hyping math is most likely to say wrong things.
I, myself, do not feel satisfied with the answer, where I believe:
- How tf the public going to fund pure mathematics if they cannot imagine what mathematicians are doing.
This is a thrown-away account as this sentiment might be shared among mathematicians. I hold no ill-willed against mathematicians, respect their field of research, and somewhat use math in work.
By hyping the mathematical research, I mean the followings:
Hyping mathematics to the public:
- Share some of the mathematical research on public social network platform (e.g. r/math)
- Describe the object of mathematics currently research and provide some of examples of those object can be found in our natural world (e.g. knot and drugs)
- Hyping mathematics to other mathematicians publicly (for the public to know whether the research is significant as they see from the experts' point of view)
- Post their own research on social media to let other experts see and comment
(etc)
It is weird that we live in a world where most people do not know the quantum notations but blabs about (insert XX-dimensional space of string), discovery of quark, "maybe gravity are particles", ...
I believe if the public has any idea of what the mathematicians are doing, just very rough ideas, the funding in mathematics can be significantly increased, maybe via donation. Currently, I believe most of people have less idea of what mathematicians are doing than any other kinds of scientific fields.