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Is Maths Useless?

are you fishing for compliments? a maths degree is pricesless.

you can get into stock broking, financial jobs ect...
thats where all the money is, and a maths degree gives you that chance

Reply 21

FormerlyFrisbeeFan

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Not my cup of tea at all, but I can see how it could be very useful.

Reply 22

Lazy92

Look, there are 3 types of people. Those who can count and those who can't.

Personally i've failed maths so many times I can't even count. When am i ever going need to use the binomial theorem?

Reply 23

kratos90

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Lots of people say it gives you useful skills that can be applied in real life, like thinking logically. But this it what maths professors tell you. Do you really need to know all that gobbledogook to learn how to make logical decisions in business and whatnot? Evidently you don't.

Reply 24

Casshern1456

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please do not make me smack you Maths is one of the most important things in the universe and everyone should do it for they're own good.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00dwf4f/b00dwf1w/The_Story_of_Maths_The_Language_of_the_Universe/

Reply 25

ForGreatJustice

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Lazy92

Look, there are 3 types of people. Those who can count and those who can't.

Personally i've failed maths so many times I can't even count. When am i ever going need to use the binomial theorem?

I do hope this was worded in this way deliberately.

And you won't ever need to use the binomial theorem, but a vast number of people in probabilty and statistics areas will, and it's quite nice.

Reply 26

al_habib

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you can do actuarial which has huge salary i guess more than a dr. As you take exams along after uni

Reply 27

al_habib

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but i wonder like log where can you apply in the real life.

Reply 28

al_habib

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a level stuff sometimes doesnt make sense

Reply 29

al_habib

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i did math a level just 2 make me busy

Reply 30

al_habib

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anyway math has many doors

Reply 31

al_habib

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anyway math has many doors so many careers you can approach to

Reply 32

FormerlyFrisbeeFan

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al_habib

anyway math has many doors so many careers you can approach to

Please try to group all your comments into one post, there's no need to flood the thread....

Reply 33

Lazy92

ForGreatJustice

I do hope this was worded in this way deliberately.

And you won't ever need to use the binomial theorem, but a vast number of people in probabilty and statistics areas will, and it's quite nice.

Yeah, well it's no accident. I'll just stick to what i do best...addition and subtraction.

yes, yes it is...

A lot of people do Maths degrees because Maths is awesome and they can't get enough of it. That's pretty much my excuse... but then that also invariably ties into a career based around Maths (e.g. academic research, teaching, code-breaking for the gov't). There are other Maths-related careers that a lot of people go into (e.g. IB, other finance jobs), and then there's the world of jobs which require "a degree" rather than a degree in anything specific.

The actual things you learn in a Maths degree really aren't going to be very useful in everyday life (unless you're in a career directly related to it); but when is anything in any degree going to be? Are you ever going to need all the facts you learn in a History degree to be good at middle-management in an office? People always ask when what you learn is Maths is ever going to be useful but never ask the same question about other subjects, and I really don't understand why not.

kratos90

Lots of people say it gives you useful skills that can be applied in real life, like thinking logically. But this it what maths professors tell you. Do you really need to know all that gobbledogook to learn how to make logical decisions in business and whatnot? Evidently you don't.

Speaking of logic, if the skills you obtain aren't necessary it doesn't mean they're not sufficient; and the way the job market is these days, having "necessary" skills isn't enough.

al_habib

anyway math has many doors so many careers you can approach to

Oh my jeebus, please stop posting!

Reply 36

HighestKungFu

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Have you not seen 'Good Will Hunting'? You can get laid by Mini Driver and strike up a really good friendship with Robin Williams and Ben Affleck if your good at Maths!

What are you waiting for?