Last Update: 18 November 2008
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Some nice quotes on the nature of interdisciplinarity:
"Knowledge is growing to the point where nobody can say they know all of mathematics, certainly. But there's so much interdisciplinary work now. We see that a mathematician can study the printing industry, and some of the ideas of dynamic programming apply to book publishing. Wow! There are interactions galore wherever you look. My model of the future is that people won't identify themselves with vertices, but rather with edgeswith the connections between two other areas, and they identify themselves by the two subspecialites that they have a talent for."