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| daqq:
--- 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? --- End quote --- It depends - if you are actually good there's any number of serious engineering companies, whether they are software, hardware, civil engineering... There are real world applications even (or maybe especially) for the really advanced stuff. If you are not particularly good, no idea. |
| rstofer:
--- Quote from: TimFox on August 04, 2021, 07:14:30 pm ---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. --- End quote --- I would think the hot topics are cryptology or machine learning and other branches of AI. I know Google is into AI bigtime and so is Microsoft plus, perhaps, government agencies. In addition to math skills, I suspect programming skills are absolutely required. MATLAB, Octave, wxMaxima, Python (and all of the libraries, especially AI libraries) and so on. I'm really old so I would throw in a dash of Fortran as well. But I'm just guessing... |
| TimFox:
By the time I retired, the younger employees doing the analytical work mainly used Matlab, but I found it easier to refer the relevant problems to them rather than learn it myself. The nice thing about Matlab is that my employer could purchase a license (for a quite reasonable price) that allowed our guys to develop "stand-alone" applications that could be used internally by the non-Matlab folks and even sold to our customers. |
| EPAIII:
You would be surprised. Start with the folks who drill for oil and gas. --- 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? --- End quote --- |
| Brumby:
--- Quote from: magic on August 04, 2021, 02:57:29 pm ---I have heard a different version: Imagine a circle lying on the Earth's equator. Then increase its circumference by 1 meter. Is it enough for a mouse to pass under it? :D --- End quote --- I like that variation. :-+ |
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