AmishDude, Ph. D. in mathematics.
The fact is, the old areas are drying up. (But they still have large amounts of tenured faculty.) I wouldn't be surprised if this guy was an algebraic topologist.
That's just not true. I agree. The author is full of it. He's probably from the school who still does long division.
What is your field of study, AmishDude? Just curious. Know anything about profile monitoring and generalized least squares?