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Contrary to the article most people shouldn't try to be professional mathematicians. All the people I knew in a mid-ranked program switched into software afterw
by theparanoid 8y ago
Contrary to the article most people shouldn't try to be professional mathematicians. All the people I knew in a mid-ranked program switched into software afterwards to make money.
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- joker3 8y agoIf you can get into MIT's math PhD program, you go for it.
- NotSammyHagar 8y agoI guess the intellectual training, abstraction, etc prepares you well for a software career, compared to say psychology (nothing against psych but it's just math is closer to cs, we are kind of poor applied math engineers). But then you end up have to learn programming practices, engineering strategies, etc.