Job Prospects for Math Ph.D

L_Hopital
Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:45:35 +0000

What kind of job prospects does someone with a Pure Math Ph.D other than teaching (assuming one only took pure math classes)?

Are the pure math classes at the graduate really just useless for anything other than academia? Are there any pure math classes that can be applied to other things? (I know Number Theory is one, but are there any others?) For example, I have an interest in PDEs, are they really just worthless outside of academia if one does not focus on the numerical analysis aspect of it?

Thanks!