Question
What are some job opportunities for a math graduate?
Answer
Clarify the kind of math. Opportunities differ wildly based on that.
In the meantime, here's a quick breadth-first laundry list of possibilities, in no particular order.
In the meantime, here's a quick breadth-first laundry list of possibilities, in no particular order.
- Statistics and probability: analytics and finance
- Geometry, topology: 3D printing, game programming, FX/CGI
- Linear algebra, matrix theory: computer animation, graphics, optimization work in logistics-driven companies, general purpose modeling
- Number theory: security, cryptography/NSA if you are actually any good at it, "fries with that" otherwise.
- Logic and foundations: AI, NLP, semantic web technology, Wolfram
- Analysis: you want fries with that? (or: pick up some control theory and numerical computation skills and look in traditional big company engineering in areas like control design, signal processing...)
- Ridiculously advanced algebra, category theory, stuff like that: assistant to people who ask "you want fries with that?" (heh heh, just my little dig at Sridhar Ramesh). Their time will come. The functor will inherit the earth.