Timeline for Careers advice for Ph.D.s without current postdocs or university jobs
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| Jul 20, 2010 at 17:29 | comment | added | Michael Hoffman | math.berkeley.edu/~urep/career.html that's the correct site | |
| Jul 20, 2010 at 17:28 | comment | added | Michael Hoffman | I would conjecture that the "knowledge of applied math is almost as useless as pure math" is true in the same sense that you learn many ideas in applied math that you never use, and from personal experience, when you start coding it's a whole new ballgame unless you've been coding for a long time. | |
| Jul 20, 2010 at 14:55 | comment | added | Deane Yang | Good comment. Many and maybe even most math Ph.D.'s I run into, who are working in the non-academic world, studied pure math. They all had to adapt, learning to work more heuristically and maybe learning skills like programming. What's worse is that I have never gotten the sense that in the financial industry applied math Ph.D.'s have any significant inherent advantage over pure math Ph.D.'s. Their knowledge of applied math is almost as useless as the pure math. | |
| Jul 20, 2010 at 14:43 | history | answered | Michael Hoffman | CC BY-SA 2.5 |