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The sometimes 'Beauty' of mathematics???

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rstofer:
Let's say a person has an BS is Applied Mathematics and an MS in Mathematics.  Where do they find a job?  What kind of industries hire theoretical mathematicians?

TimFox:

--- Quote from: armandine2 on August 04, 2021, 05:38:40 pm ---sometimes the numbers seem to be well chosen - almost like someone was trying to get you to remember the formula!

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In primary-grade arithmetic (say, fourth grade), the numbers in the homework problems always "came out even", so that the clever students knew that it was probably wrong when the process did not come out even.

mawyatt:

--- Quote from: rstofer on August 04, 2021, 06:21:15 pm ---Let's say a person has an BS is Applied Mathematics and an MS in Mathematics.  Where do they find a job?  What kind of industries hire theoretical mathematicians?

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We had a whole staff of mathematicians including my colleagues wife a Fulbright Scholar, she studied at a French university (I can't remember the details :-\. They were mostly working on Kalman filters for SOTA Inertial Nav Systems based upon ESG and RLG Gyros, but this was ~45 years ago. Also had a colleague professor when I was an adjunct that studied under Nash at Princeton, he was brilliant and authored a grad level book on Complex Variables!! However, today I'm not sure where one would look outside a university for work specifically in advanced mathematics.

Best,

mawyatt:

--- Quote from: TimFox on August 04, 2021, 06:23:12 pm ---
--- Quote from: armandine2 on August 04, 2021, 05:38:40 pm ---sometimes the numbers seem to be well chosen - almost like someone was trying to get you to remember the formula!

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In primary-grade arithmetic (say, fourth grade), the numbers in the homework problems always "came out even", so that the clever students knew that it was probably wrong when the process did not come out even.

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Recall from undergrad calculus a test problem with integration by parts, you kept coming up with the same integral over and over that you started with, and another term. The clever student, not me  :( realized the answer was the other term divided by 2 :o

Best,

TimFox:
I’m retired, and not an authority on the current job market, but at my employer we had high-ranking employees with advanced degrees in mathematics working on image processing and similar topics.

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