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This is so simply not true, or highly subfield-dependent. Unless you are a superstar, there is no way you get a TT job without a postdoc in math.

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> Unless you are a superstar, there is no way you get a TT job without a postdoc in math.

Seeing that my institution and lots more do have assistant professorships for new PhDs in math, and I even have friends who have attained such positions, this is very much true. Of course one needs to be relatively successful.

Edit: Okay, it appears that some people consider those positions “postdoc in disguise”.

This is exactly one of the points raised in the text. Non-TT assistant professorships are indeed postdocs, which often come with more teaching load than other fellowship-based postdocs. This is for example the case of the "Hills Assistant professorship" at Rutgers

Szegö Assistant Professor is one such example. For more on this, https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/15969

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