How to build a great academic department
Submitted by ellen on Sat, 08/11/2007 - 4:17pm
From an interview of mathematician Christopher Zeeman by Justin Mullins in the July 21, 2007, New Scientist:
Q: You built a world-class mathematics department from scratch at the University of Warwick when it was founded in the 1960s. How?
A: I wrote to the six best topologists in the world asking them to join me. They all said no. So I wrote again saying the other five had agreed, and all replied to say yes.
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