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students as we got in the 60 's. The pulls of non-academic salaries 



for Bachelors and Masters recipients and the (deserved) glamour of 



computer science have helped channel talent in the US away from 



mathematics per se . However, we seem now to have bottomed out on 



both quantity and quality and recently have been doing somewhat 



better. But there will continue to be great benefit to our country's 



mathematical effort from the importing of top talent from abroad 



at both the graduate student and post doctoral levels. The relative 



non-availability of good academic positions in much of the rest of 



the world provides the United States with excellent recruiting 



opportunities. 



Some needs of the US mathematics community in international cooperation 



1. Continued free and open exchange of information. 



2. Continued and somewhat expanded funds for international travel 

 and exchanges (both short and long term) and both to and from 



the United States. . ' 



3. Easier access to immigrant visas for permanent residence status 

 for non-US mathematical scientists. The current procedures appear 

 to be unnecessarily tedious and expensive. 



The long term 



With the computer revolution greatly speeding up the mathematiza- 

 tion of society, there is every likelihood that the number of 

 researchers and practitioners in mathematics and its applications 

 will continue to grow. Furthermore the United States preeminence 

 in computing and its applications strongly suggest that the United 

 States will continue to develop as "the worlds graduate center" in 

 the mathematical as well as the computer sciences. The need for 

 additional resources to support such" activities can be expected 

 to continue unabated. 



