jobs for math majors

turbo93
Sun, 30 Oct 2011 19:24:06 +0000

Not a single Operations Course - a whole focus on OR, Decision Analysis & Support, and the like. A great intersection of statistics, applied math, computer science, and industrial engineering (operations mostly).

For the student who loves linear algebra, may I suggest a focus in computational math and numerical analysis. I have been known to bring an IBM 3090 to its knees (vector processor and all) by doing heavy duty numerical analysis stuff, mostly matrix manipulations.

Linear algebra also plays very well into engineering math, especially structure analysis and the like, or, for more fun, computer graphics (think of the uber-graphics cards of today as nothing but multiprocessors that require heavy duty math, lots of it linear algebra and the likes) or solid modeling (likewise but more formal and stuffy.

There is also a lot of interest in multiprocessor computer programming as cpu multi-cores are getting everywhere. And, of course, lots of math there as well…