I expect to take several more late-undergraduate- to early-graduate-level math courses. Presumably some will turn out to be much more valuable to me than others, and presumably this is possible to predict better-than-randomly in advance.
Yes, but not in a uniform way. The mathematical frontier is so large, and semesters so short, that Professor A’s version of, for instance, a grad level “Dynamical Systems” course can have literally no overlap with Professor B’s version. Useful advice here is going to have to come from Professors A and B (though not necessarily directly).
what the math of agency … is like
Underdeveloped. There’s some interesting work coming out of the programming language theory / applied category theory region these days (Neil Ghani and David Spivak come to mind), but “the math of agency” is not even an identifiable field yet, let alone one mature enough to show up in curricula.
Yes, but not in a uniform way. The mathematical frontier is so large, and semesters so short, that Professor A’s version of, for instance, a grad level “Dynamical Systems” course can have literally no overlap with Professor B’s version. Useful advice here is going to have to come from Professors A and B (though not necessarily directly).
Underdeveloped. There’s some interesting work coming out of the programming language theory / applied category theory region these days (Neil Ghani and David Spivak come to mind), but “the math of agency” is not even an identifiable field yet, let alone one mature enough to show up in curricula.