help me out with a career! (1 Viewer)

[ronaldinho]

Ive done some research in mathematics.. i like to be a mathematician.. i think i can do reasonably well in chem phy and ext 2 maths for HSC.. does any1 know what the required UAI for mathematics in UNI is?

and also is there any1 studying mathematics in UNIVERSITY or is a mathematcian (as a job)... if ur one of the above plz gimme some info.. like how many hours of uni/week.. or what a typical day for a mathematician is... etc etc...

this is a bit of info on me [only 10 units]
ext 2
2 ad eng
2 phy
2chem

this is only career which sounds interesting to me... seems quite 'fun' and challeneging..

thanks 4 whoever helps me out!!!

 

[priesty]

is there even an occupation explicitly titled 'mathematician'?? perhaps you should look into the various strands of study that requires plenty of maths skills, that way you could get a job...

try looking at actuarial studies...

 

[vanush]

I agree. Mathematicians are fairly redundant, unless your willing to study all those proofs and conjectures. Or become a teacher.

 

[ronaldinho]

hmm kk.. i went to this australian site
http://www.jobguide.dest.gov.au/

and they had information on mathematician as a career

 

[lala2]

My calculus tutor first semester did a Bachelor of Science at USYD in Advanced Maths, then got honours then did his Ph.D. at UNSW because of the scholarship offers, and yeah, is basically a tutor. This sort of path is mainly for teaching and the occassional professional use, depending what area of maths you wanna specialise in, e.g. statistics, you can be paid to statistically analyse the results of a study, but calculus may be a bit hard to put into practice in the real world. However, having said that, my tutor said that you can get a job totally unrelated to your degree--the skills you have cultivated during the degree etc may get you a job in a commerce-related firm, engineering, any of the health sciences, etc.

 

[blackfriday]

im doing maths at uni. i you dont mind working with numbers for the rest of your life you could be an actuary, some form of numbers-heavy finance person, economist, modelling, risk management, industry analyst etc. there's a lot to do.

 

[ronaldinho]

kk.. thanks for da help!