Re: Business Week article on the Rise of Math



On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Old Pif wrote:


Randy wrote: 

Conversely, if you want job security, or challenging work, or if you
want your role to be seen as essential to your company, or even if
you're just a curious person, then from my own personal experience, math
seems to be increasingly important to employers.  In fact, I'd go so far
to say that virtually 100% of the computing/software jobs in the past
few years that have interested me require math beyond calculus or basic
statistics.


I don't see that. And I have never met any IT company that paid even
slightest attention to the mathematical skills of its employee.

In fact, the general trend is to shield applications from the exposure
to math completely. As incredible as it is many engineers working with
such advanced tools like Ansys, ProE, Fluent and similar don't even
know what equations they are solving.

Mathematics as a profession is bound to production of such tools. The
discussed article is referring to exactly such niche where standard
tools are not yet available but it is changing. In 5 maximum ten years
all this people will change either their working place or profession or
both.

Mathematicians will be needed of course but it will never be a massive
profession. Alas.

Once, maybe a decade+ ago, our NSA, did hire a large fraction of the PhD math graduates of US schools. And, that is where the jobs were. The only other place for math PhDs was in academia, and the numbers I remember from years ago was that NSA slowed down hiring quite a bit and math PhD unemployment was like 18-20%.

Old Pif


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