math majors may future ba kayo?

[turningpoint]

anu ba talga ang nagiging trabaho ng mga math majors after they graduate? kinda curious lang! or yung mga people in the sciences particularly physics chemistry? san ba talga ang patungo ninyo?

[shad_ma]

math majors have a lot of things ahead of them. btw *** yr are u in? math majors could go into consulting firms, insurance companies, banks etc. when ur a math major u dnt study math entirely u also take some computer subj. ir u should. dnt wori abt work it'll come

[clawed_out]

and the world is round.... everyone has his place there..hindi lang business & med....

math majors..pwede din silang mag law after... or whatever..just like any other science majors....

[tofi]

actually those who are math majors can also go for IT careers.

[turningpoint]

ic! you gave me a lot of things to look forward to but i can say that i hate my course right now coz i dont get the point of what i'm studying eh! tapos ganito ur considering law i.t. etc? how would i relate it to that courses kung la naman kami sa curriculum na nagtatake ng ganun? medyo gulo ako kung pursue ko course ko! parang pinapaasa ko na lang sarili ko eh!

[shad_ma]

***'s ur course right now. i know ur a math major but *** are u planning to take as electives would determine if ur gonna fit in the business world. aqutuarial science is a hard but edging elective so its ol up to u

[turningpoint]

ic nice info guys! hmmm....... what's the hardest ba? actuarial science???? i thought those who are interested in business should be taking up business applications??? they also offer computer applications! nagugulo ako eh! sana nga may future with this course! i wish ....

[Oscar01]

I think the Ateneo Math majors of the 60's became very successful in IT and business fields. A good number of the first Management Engineering majors were double majors from the Math program; one was a triple major in Math, ME and EcoH (and he was also the Corps Commander according to his professor).

[uptowngirl]

Yup, Math Majors are great in the IT Business! My boss is a Math Major.

[shad_ma]

u may not be using ur math perse but the way ur mind works is the one needed. analytical thinking, and structural frame of mind this is how a mathematician think. a computer major would think in a dissecting manner call it analytical also but on a different level.

[hello_kitty416]

math teacher ayaw mo?? kidding! =)
nakakanis no, pag sinabing bs math ka,,they think you have no future.. isip ng most ppl future mo is magturo. but its not it... there are a lot of applications in math

One pwede ka mag acsi and sobrang in demand yan sa insurance firms coz konti lang ang mga actuary sa Philippines.

Tapos pwede ka rin sa business ap. Operations Research ang focus niyan. you are taught to manage resources such that you maximize the use of resources and minimize *** waste etc. given certain contraints like budget etc.. its an interesting application...

Tapos math majors din ang hinahanap for IT coz of our analytical skills... aside from that marami pa! kaya nga hindi madali ang math e... say mo? no future! nah!!!!!!!! =P

[Fortune]

yup most of my batchmates are into ACTUARIAL SCIENCE to become actuaries

some in IT sa USA

ako doing Financial Risk Mgmt for a top bank

[burn_stampede]

yup there is! we are needed in different ways me as a major in statistics i'm much needed as an Acturian!!

[chria07caloy]

ya..! of course....you can be statistician, can be a teacher..etc..

you know what i finished/graduated bachelor of arts in mathematics...i'm formerly working in a private firm under accounting department holding a position as accounting staff who managed master payroll and at the same time accounts payable then i now currently working as export decumentation processor managed documents local and abroad...

you can also be a tutor...for part time job....

[cHisM0Sa]

take actuarial science.... laki daw sweldo nung mga yun eh.... pahirap lang nga.... hehe...

[rao]

'tang 'na namang tanong yan, kahit basurero nga me future eh

[rao]

Pardon the expletive

This is the kind of question that could elicit curses in UP. It is a stupid question. However, I will indulge you and will try to educate you.

Without mathematics, the world won't be as we know it.

Take for example digital communications, without math, digital communications will hardly exist.

The Fast Fourier Transform was developed by Gauss, the Prince of Mathematicians. It got lost in the volumes of Gauss' work. It was rediscovered in the 60's by JW Cooley and John W Tukey (both mathematicians). The FFT made digital filtering feasible. An operation that once had a complexity of O(n^2) can now be computed at O(nlogbase2 n).

In the late 40's another mathematician, Claude E. Shannon, published a paper entitled "A Mathematical Theory of Communication". In this paper, Shannon outlined the requirements of communications in the presence of noise, specifically, he said that as long as you are not operating beyond the channel capacity, you can make transmission errors arbitrarily small. The rest is hist... as the cliche goes

So my dear, without math and mathematicians, you can kiss your cellular mobile phone's a.s.s good bye

[sea sprite]

a bit harsh but certainly true, rao.

i'm friends with two math majors. one of them is taking math as a pre-med course while the other is taking math for math's sake.

it's interesting because the latter has the brains and the talent to succeed in almost every math-related field there is (totally unbiased friend's opinion ). his parents aren't particularly well-off and they allowed him to major in math because they thought that he'd make a good living as an actuary (actuarian? hmmm....). however, he was seduced by the mysterious world of pure mathematics and he realized that he wanted to be thinking about coding theory (or something like that) for the rest of his life and maybe pick up a fields medal while he was at it.

now he's teaching while taking his ms. i think he wants to eventually do a phd at one of the prestigious research-based math departments abroad and become an expert in his little corner of the math world.

while it may not be as financially rewarding as other math-related careers, you gotta admit that it's a pretty bright future nonetheless.

[GreenTurd]

Originally posted by sea sprite

while it may not be as financially rewarding as other math-related careers, you gotta admit that it's a pretty bright future nonetheless.

There are many lucrative opportunities for math majors. My dad's investment bankers in the USA hire teams of Math and Physics PhDs who develop proprietary math-based and mainframe-based investment models. Many of the top people in the Capital Market Groups of the large investment banks major in Math and Physics. Most of the program trading done in Wall Street have Math and Physics majors behind them. I know because I've met many of them.

[Hulk]

You can try the investments profession. As financial products gets more complicated and technical, demand for rocket scientists increase. You can try risk management which is a relatively new field in the industry here in the Philippines. It basically involves measuring maximum possible losses given certain events and conditions.