Mathematics Skills More in Demand Than Ever 590
knownsense writes "Business week has a nice article (feel good, low on detail, vague numbers) on the rise of maths and mathematicians in a world that is increasingly obsessed with statistics, advertising, search engines, and algorithms. The article also deals with issues of privacy. How has mathematics, statistics and other number driven aspects of life impacted you in the last decade?"
Hmmmm (Score:4, Funny)
English skills? (Score:5, Funny)
That's nice, but which factor? 1 is a factor of 10
Calculator (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Math vs Maths? (Score:5, Funny)
well lets just say (Score:5, Funny)
It hasn't gotten me laid yet.
The main impact on me (Score:4, Funny)
It made me go made hairline recede like crazy as I studied calculus in school and at college.
How much more? (Score:5, Funny)
is it 2x more? 3x more? Maybe 5(log n)x^2 more? sin(cos(log (pi) * -1/2)) + e? More importantly, how much has the standard deviation moved from previous years to this one?
Re:Ancient Greek Technology Costs Jobs. (Score:3, Funny)
Another application for math (Score:5, Funny)
and Texas Hold'em.
That's EASY.. (Score:2, Funny)
Stopped me getting laid for most of it.
Next question...?
Re:Ancient Greek Technology Costs Jobs. (Score:3, Funny)
how numbers have helped me...! (Score:1, Funny)
I could *erm* go on & on....
Re:well lets just say (Score:5, Funny)
Paycheck (Score:2, Funny)
Re:well lets just say (Score:2, Funny)
1) If you're an applied math guy, you can use it to make enough money to attract the kind of women who like money
2) If you're a theoretical math guy, you can use it to make interesting small talk involving some loose homomorphism between something you know a lot about and one of the woman's interests, assuming she's smart enough to follow what you're saying
Option (2) works particularly well with hippie chicks, artists, and architects. Fortunately, my wife is and/or was all three of those things
Re:well lets just say (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Ancient Greek Technology Costs Jobs. (Score:1, Funny)
Sounds like I'm getting useful training from my Statistics class
Re:Ancient Greek Technology Costs Jobs. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The Pure Profession (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Ancient Greek Technology Costs Jobs. (Score:3, Funny)
I was completely mystified about what this could possibly have meant, until I remembered that you guys don't use the metric system.
I guess converting from 11.764 feet to 11 feet and the appropriate number of inches would be a bitch. I'm just surprised they put the conversion into a special "square root" button and don't just have a general feet/inches decimal conversion tool.
Re:Ancient Greek Technology Costs Jobs. (Score:4, Funny)
Oh boy! Let's see:
It's good to be the King!
Very Good! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Ancient Greek Technology Costs Jobs. (Score:5, Funny)
It wasn't really fair to require the poor blacksmiths to carry around the family and a trunkload of groceries anyway. I bet the blacksmiths were glad.
Re:Too late (Score:3, Funny)