• Question: What type of jobs can you do as a mathematician

    Asked by task522fees on 3 Feb 2025. This question was also asked by puma522fees, suns522fees, seem522wasp, what522wasp, east522case.
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      Kathryn Howells answered on 3 Feb 2025:

      There are a lot of jobs you can do as a mathematician. I work as a Statistician in the Pharmaceutical industry which involves working with other scientists to develop and test new treatments to help patients.

      I’ve also worked within a hospital, advising doctors on the statistical aspects of the the medical research they were doing and analysing the data they gathered. I’ve also worked in a large bank within their marketing department, calculating the probability of a customer opening a banking product based on marketing.

      I also have friend that’s studied maths and have become accountants, working within insurance companies and teachers.

      Most large companies now collect data – from football and rugby premiership sports clubs to supermarkets and online companies and so they need people that are good at maths to summarise the data, creating graphs, calculating means etc to inform business decisions.

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