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What can you do with a math degree? (pg. 2)
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| Orbax |
| I guess a serious answer would be business analyst at a government position. Just say youre good at analyzing and then read the SDLC and ITSM/ITIL docs so you understand project and software lifecycles |
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| SuspicionVandit |
do you already have your degree, thinking about it or starting?
Maybe it's not to get a personal interest in cryptology, algorithm and encryption and to create the most mathematically complex and undecipherable security scheme |
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| SuspicionVandit |
| quote: | Originally posted by Provocative_boi
DJ Arithmetic :conf: |
aka BT :conf:
fibonacci sequence
1.618 |
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| Omega_M |
| quote: | Originally posted by tubularbills
someone who gets a degree in math is just plain old math. it's not like you can get a a degree in calculus or algebra or something. it's just math. |
no.
Algebra and Discrete Mathematics.
Analysis.
Computational Mathematics.
Operations Research.
Statistics and Probability.
Control theory.
Mathematical Logic.
Geometry/Topology.
Information theory.
Mathematical Physics.
Partial Differential Equations.
One can spend a life time in each of these separate fields.
Mathematicians can get a job in a variety of engineering/finance/teaching/pure science fields. And they they are in great demand I might add... |
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| Orbax |
| quote: | Originally posted by Omega_M
no.
Algebra and Discrete Mathematics.
Analysis.
Computational Mathematics.
Operations Research.
Statistics and Probability.
Control theory.
Mathematical Logic.
Geometry/Topology.
Information theory.
Mathematical Physics.
Partial Differential Equations.
One can spend a life time in each of these separate fields. |
I think hes saying that without all the qualifiers such as "computational, information, physics" etc...its just math. I think Athens circa 200ad was the last time/place people paid you just for realizing that pi is 3.14 |
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| tubularbills |
| quote: | Originally posted by Omega_M
One can spend a life time in each of these separate fields.
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but why would you?!?!!?!?
| quote: | Originally posted by Orbax
I think hes saying that without all the qualifiers such as "computational, information, physics" etc...its just math. I think Athens circa 200ad was the last time/place people paid you just for realizing that pi is 3.14 |
yeah pretty much.
ps, i did my 4 semesters of calculus, and i'm never going back. lol |
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| Orbax |
I took a class in gravity that said you had to know no math (which was good because i stopped at the point where you find angles inside of triangles) and on our final was the question:
How much does the sun weigh, roughly?
:wtf:
you had to use stellar parallax and angular momentum and trig and .
It took my several frantic nights to learn trig. Thank you internet. Thats why i hate math. Any time I need the equation someone already solved it and posted it. |
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| tubularbills |
| quote: | Originally posted by Orbax
It took my several frantic nights to learn trig. Thank you internet. Thats why i hate math. Any time I need the equation someone already solved it and posted it. |
always great isn't that? |
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| Orbax |
I only went to class 1x a week so when I got my assignment on Friday to show why you thought the sun weighed so and so using gravitational constants, parallax, angular momentum, and stuff I was like...does this have anything to do with either Pi or Pythagoras because your ing class notes said algebra .
ended up not being that hard once you got spoon fed the equation and learned what it meant. 8 hours later I had homework done at 4 am :*)
edit: also I still know nothing and drink beer but I get paid. and I never got a degree.
Rolling up the corporate ramp baby |
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| Omega_M |
| quote: | Originally posted by Orbax
I think hes saying that without all the qualifiers such as "computational, information, physics" etc...its just math. |
they are not just qualifiers. they are separate fields each having a separate application area.
| quote: | | I think Athens circa 200ad was the last time/place people paid you just for realizing that pi is 3.14 |
you are completely wrong. Even today considerable amount of computational hardware involving super computers and cluster networks along with sophisticated algorithms are used to calculate an accurate value of pi |
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| Orbax |
| quote: | Originally posted by Omega_M
they are not just qualifiers. they are separate fields each having a separate application area.
you are completely wrong. Even today considerable amount of computational hardware involving super computers and cluster networks along with sophisticated algorithms are used to calculate an accurate value of pi |
yeah, like I said math doesnt teach you how to make a ing supercomputer or how to make cluster networks. Math by itself is like science. You have to prove you have APPLICATION skills to get a job ;) |
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| LeopoldStotch |
the best jobs imo are:
*statistician
*program manager (you don't need to learn how to develop things. just take developer's data, and create statistics out of them)
*math teacher
*stock broker (yeah you do need a business background for that, but with your knowledge of numbers, the stock market should be a cinch for you.) |
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