Comments on: Apparently being a mathematician is really, really great

By: coven

coven — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 17:58:18 +0000

what were the disadvantages of being a mathematician

By: ARUN BHARADWAJ

ARUN BHARADWAJ — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 15:01:07 +0000

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By: Faique

Faique — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 02:33:31 +0000

i get that it is all great but if u can tell me some advantages and disadvantages of being a mathematician. I would really like that!!

By: Mike

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By: Neil B.

Neil B. — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:33:48 +0000

Mattheath, I’ve had trouble finding answers to the question, what happens if you take zero to the power of complex numbers. It’s interesting because 0^(positive real) = 0 and 0^(negative real) = “infinity” or maybe undefined So then, 0^i etc. = ? tx.

By: Chris Unitt

Chris Unitt — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:28:05 +0000

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By: mattheath

mattheath — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:25:22 +0000

Andrew, that is pretty amusing but I doubt it was a deliberate plan by a mathematician to put maths at the top. I think it just fell through the cracks because (to the outside observer at least) it is the job that most resembles doing nothing (which this study seems to really value).

Despite the impression you may have got assessing those Mail and Torygraph formulae (awesome work btw) mathematicians aren’t in the habit of hacking out completely arbitrary formulae and claiming they describe reality. Not unless there’s a PR exec with a huge check lurking somewhere in the background.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:32:30 +0000

I love this.

Someone wanted to work out what the best job was and rather than actually do a survey or something, they worked out an equation and plugged their opinions into it, and we’re supposed to be surprised that it said ‘mathematician’?

I bet if someone wrote a poem about what would be a good job it would conclude that being a poet was actually pretty great.