ON THE DEMISE OF INDIVIDUALITY IN MATHEMATICS AND WIDER ACADEMIA.

Is genuine individuality for staff throughout U.K. academia in general, and mathematics by association, becoming eroded? This opinion piece suggests that it is most certainly on the decline, arguing for the accommodation of a wide variety of character types to enhance a workplace now dominated by frenetic busyness and inextricably tangled up with an overbearing compliance threatening to run riot in H.E. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]