Applications of Math in other fields?

Ctesiphon
Thu, 25 Sep 2014 03:08:45 +0000

I figured this would be the best place to ask it. I’m a HS senior and for the longest time I was planning on majoring in engineering. After looking at what engineers do I have found myself not as appealed to that career and I do not think I am smart enough to be en engineer.

I love math and I am good at math. I know math and science often go hand in hand, but this last year I took honors chemistry and got B both semester. I’m taking AP Chem and AP Physics this year in and I’m barely getting an A in Physics and high B in chem. I love science and I think it is incredibly fascinating but I am not good at it. I want to be a physicist one day but I do not think that will happen when I am so bad at something as comparatively simple as high school physics.

I also absolutely love history. I spend a lot of time reading history books on my own outside of school. I’m sort of neutral on English - literary analysis and that ivory tower. I am strayed away from those fields though because they have dismal employment prospects.

Basically I love math but I do am not really appealed to any of the applications of math. Engineering, physics, chemistry, etc. are too hard for me, despite me finding it all very fascinating. I fear if I try to take on those courses in college I will immediately fail due to a lack of intelligence. For personal/political reasons I am appalled by finance or business related fields.

I’ve been trying to find math in other fields. Outside of majoring in JUST math, where are other fields that very actively use math (since you can argue that math is essentially everywhere)?