Pairing academic mathematicians with engineers amplifies corporate R&D problem solving
Jimmy Soni · a16z Podcast | From Mind at Play to Making the Information Age · Jan 2, 2019 · at 18:10
Author Jimmy Soni explains Thornton Frye's hiring heuristic at Bell Labs for integrating non-academic mathematicians into practical engineering teams.
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“Realizes that there are a bunch of academic mathematicians who don't want to stay in academia and you don't really know what to do with them. And he sort of says, well, if you invite them in and attach them to engineers, attach them to physicists, They can help. They can sort of amplify and help solve problems.”
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