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Summer List of Applicants, 318, 319 The Support of Mathematical Research in the United States I. Structure and Magnitude by Kenneth M. Hoffman A Working Paper prepared for the AMS Committee on Science Policy This document was written in January 1982, • A prestigious national committee has been as an outgrowth of discussions within the AMS set up by the National Research Council to Committee on Science Policy aimed at developing review the health and support of research a major Society statement on the appropriate scale in the mathematical sciences in the United and use of extra-university funds for the support States. of the national research effort in mathematics The details of our circumstances as we start (broadly defined). It was intended to be a 1982 would seem to argue even more strongly framework for discussion, not a treatise with fully­ for development of a consistent rationale for the detailed arguments. The principal theses of the support of mathematics. paper, beyond the essential fact that the funding Consider first our political or procedural cir­ level has been markedly too low for many years, cumstances. There has been considerable con­ are that we must realize that the proper support of troversy in the mathematical community over mathematics involves much more than the support the (originally one and now two) new research in­ of individual mathematicians and that both we stitutes. It has gone on for years. The debate over and the funding agencies must behave accordingly. the intrinsic merits of the institute idea-some­ At an immediate practical level, these mean that what along the lines of the European model-has -in our efforts to seek additional resources as always been heavily influenced by concerns over well as in our planning for the use of existing the use of scarce resources to support experiments resources-it is important that we get away from in such directions-how many research grants such heavy reliance on the model of small grants will be lost?-and by concerns about process­ which contain summer salaries and little else and has the mathematical community been properly move toward patterns of support which properly consulted? It seems best to answer these questions reflect the variety of activities important to the now by saying "Opinions still vary." But one health of the mathematical research enterprise. thing we should be able to agree on is that, as The publication of this working paper is one of a result of a prolonged and sometimes heated a series of steps which the Committee on Science Policy intends to take to involve the broader KENNETH M. HOFFMAN (Massachusetts Institute mathematical community in its deliberations. We of Technology) is Chairman of the Society's will welcome your comments. Committee on Science Policy. Other members of the The general circumstances in which the math­ Committee are Hyman Bass (Columbia University), ematicians of this country now find themselves Felix E.