I know the name kind of says it all...they do math...but what exactly does the career of mathematician hold? And what is the typical annual income of a mathematician?
2007-12-06 09:36:28 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
Like all such questions, this one has widely varying answers.
Few people are technically called "mathematicians" other than professors of mathematics and a few industrial researchers. (Ditto financial trading firms.) Industry research jobs requiring technical PhDs pay a bunch. Professorship pay is all over the place.
Statisticians are a lot like mathematicians. They have excellent job prospects with a masters degree or better in statistics at consumer marketing and other big companies. These people commonly use software from SAS or maybe SPSS, so the SAS and SPSS company websites give good insight into what they do. "Predictive analytics" is a buzzphrase covering a lot of that work.
The role of such work in biological research and medicine is going way up too. "Bioinformatics" and "computational biology" are key buzzwords there.
Insurance companies also hire a lot of such people to be "actuaries". So look into that profession too.
Similar things are true about "operations research" or "optimization", except that the math is more interesting and there are many fewer total jobs.
Also, some parts of mathematics are closely related to computer science.
2007-12-06 12:16:52 · answer #1 · answered by Curt Monash 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-13 21:44:17 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋