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He has sent me his prediction in a private message.
Well?
The prediction was:
A graduate physics degree no doubt requires calculus. What about the rest?
That's about right. I did learn elementary set theory and logic, and had to prove theorems in the course of my research, but I was not interested in, say, computability, advanced logic, formal systems or the number theory. I guess Platonism is more pervasive among pure mathematicians.
You've studied abstract algebra too, no? At minimum, you've dealt with groups.
Oh, for sure, had to learn some, like finite groups, Lie groups/algebras.