i guess mathematics doesn't sell newspapers.
Just thought this was interesting. the excerpt is from a letter to the editor in the March issue of Notices of the AMS. the full text can be found here, in PDF form.
- .. as a fledgling reporter, she was told by a senior reporter that the goal of science reportage was to give the reader merely “an illusion of understanding of the technical subject matter”. She also reported a statement made by Rob Finer, a former editor of the New York Times, that
- Mathematics has no emotional impact. What
physicists do challenges peoples’ notion of origins
and creations. Mathematics doesn’t change
any fundamental beliefs or what it means to be
human. - Mathematics has no emotional impact. What