What jobs allow me to do abstract math?

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I hate my current job. It is not stimulating. I wish I can do abstract math for money. For hubby, I always write down equations, and solve math problems. I really want to get the hell out of my ******* job. Currently, I make about 200K working for Goldman. What a **** **** company. They have shitty policy, and long hours for their wage. It is all blood money. I want to be a math professor, so that people can leave the **** away from me. People constantly bother me with their retarded questions. I ******* hate new york, and I ******* hate lawyers. Shot everyone is will be fine with me, since they are all dogs to me. I want to tired each of them up, cut their meat off, and feed it them their ******* meat. Pricks...

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[+4] - CalamityJane - 04/10/2011Oy, someone needs anger management, and I agree with contrex - this guy has nothing but foul language to offer.

@TuringEquivalent,

All math is an abstraction of reality...

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@TuringEquivalent,

Cryptography involves a lot number theory and abstract algebra, doesn't it? And in data security applications there is, at the very least, some of the same type of creative, what-possible-moves-might-my-opponent-make thinking that is required, say, in writing adversarial arguments that provide lower bounds to computer science problems.

Therefore, I think data security might be your best bet. Seems to me there's more creative problem-solving, generally, in IT careers, than in finance.

(My answers are all so much speculation. I myself would love to hear better answers to TE's question.)

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@TuringEquivalent,

TuringEquivalent wrote:

I want to be a math professor, so that people can leave the **** away from me. People constantly bother me with their retarded questions.

Most math professors deal with people and their questions all day. Are you sure this is a good direction for you?

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@TuringEquivalent,

TuringEquivalent wrote:

I hate my current job ... Currently, I make about 200K working for Goldman. What a **** **** company.

Yeah right like I believe you. I think it is more likely you make 15K hosing **** off toilet seats in a bus station somewhere like Bensonhurst.

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@ehBeth,

ehBeth wrote:

Most math professors deal with people and their questions all day. Are you sure this is a good direction for you?

The situation is more complicated than that.

Most Math profs deal with others who are interested in Math and in abstract thinking. And they don't generally have to deal with highly verbal, less visual, literal-minded people like lawyers. I have yet to become an actuary, but I imagine conversations with lawyers who reason very differently from actuaries must test the patience of everyone involved.

Working as a professor (or even as a tutor) puts you in a position of advantage over those you communicate with. It's less of a struggle between equals to get the last word. You have the luxury of an audience that is willing to bleed to understand your thought process.

Also, at the elite schools, I understand that research is considered the most important thing anyway. The less communicative professors therefore manage to somehow get by.

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@contrex,

contrex wrote:

TuringEquivalent wrote:
I hate my current job ... Currently, I make about 200K working for Goldman. What a **** **** company.

Yeah right like I believe you. I think it is more likely you make 15K hosing **** off toilet seats in a bus station somewhere like Bensonhurst.

So you're thinking it's more likely he works for JGoldman10 than for Goldman Sachs? Well, I must disagree with you contrex; I am willing to give people the benefit of the doubt. Wink

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@Oylok,

Oylok wrote:

You have the luxury of an audience that is willing to bleed to understand your thought process.

that's more than a bit of an optimistic view of how students view professors

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@Oylok,

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but I imagine conversations with lawyers

lawyers are quite logical im<ho and make great back office staff

do me a fave and post a mathematical prob germane to your studies

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@laughoutlood,

laughoutlood wrote:

do me a fave and post a mathematical prob germane to your studies

Okay, but this is my last favour to you...

Define a function f(n) for integers n > 0, such that f(n) = (3n + 1) / 2, if n is odd, and f(n) = n / 2, if n is even. Prove that for any integer n > 1, the sequence (ak), recursively defined by a0 = n, and ak+1 = f(ak), reaches 1.

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@Oylok,

what has that to do with your studies of expectation

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@laughoutlood,

Oh, you didn't specify which studies...

(To anyone reading, don't attempt that last problem.)

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@Oylok,

The old (3n+1) conjecture.

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@raprap,

Yeah, it's been around awhile now, I guess.

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@Oylok,

Oylok wrote:

Define a function f(n) for integers n > 0, such that f(n) = (3n + 1) / 2, if n is odd, and f(n) = n / 2, if n is even. Prove that for any integer n > 1, the sequence (ak), recursively defined by a0 = n, and ak+1 = f(ak), reaches 1.

Am somewhat surprised the original poster here (who started a thread ab0ut having a degree in mathematics from a "top school") didn't already answer you:
That function is known to reach 1 for 1< n <= 19×2^58 ~~ 5.48×10^18 and as Raprap spotted right away it's an unsolved problem for all n larger than that.

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@raprap,

There's a prize for a proof of the Collatz conjecture for all n>1. Maybe the OP here can enter "unsolved problems in mathematics" here > http://www.wolframalpha.com/
> and see how many he can solve - that's the answer to his "job" question btw, these are as "abstract" as it gets and some offer $1m prizes for solutions Smile

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196-algorithm termination problem | abc conjecture | Andrica's conjecture | Barnette's conjecture | Beal's conjecture | closing lemma | Collatz problem | de Polignac's conjecture | Eberhart's conjecture | normality of e | Erdős-Turán conjecture | irrationality of the Euler-Mascheroni constant | Fuglede's conjecture | strong Goldbach conjecture | ternary Goldbach conjecture | graph genus problem | graph isomorphism problem | Hodge conjecture | Jacobian conjecture | Keller's conjecture | Landau's fourth problem | Legendre's conjecture | linear programming problem over the reals | infinitude of Mersenne primes problem | smooth solution to the Navier-Stokes equations problem | normality of pi | principle of computational equivalence | P vs. NP problem | Quillen-Lichtenbaum conjecture | Riemann hypothesis | Scholz conjecture | Smale's fourth problem | Smale's fifth problem | Smale's sixth problem | Smale's seventh problem | Smale's eighth problem | Smale's eleventh problem | Smale's twelfth problem | Smale's thirteenth problem | Smale's fourteenth problem | Smale's seventeenth problem | Smale's eighteenth problem | subgraph homeomorphism problem | Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture | twin prime conjecture | second twin prime conjecture | strong twin prime conjecture | Wagstaff's conjecture | Yang-Mills existence and mass gap problem (total: 49)

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Oy, someone needs anger management, and I agree with contrex - this guy
has nothing but foul language to offer.

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Contrex wrote:

Actually, I don't have one of those

And those who have such, seldom use a sig line like yours... Laughing

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You've been exposed as a crackpot and a fraud - if in a hole, stop digging. Leave Jane out of your delirium, but if you can still manage some continuity and coherence with your befuddled brain, can you explain why you claim to be trained in mathematics? If you persist in that claim, can you give details on it?

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@High Seas,

High Seas wrote:

You've been exposed as a crackpot and a fraud - if in a hole, stop digging.

I am exposed as a crackpot? Really? I am not angry because I am "exposed".
I am angry, because she acts like bitch, and I don 't like bitches. I ******* slap people for overstepping, understand?

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can you explain why you claim to be trained in mathematics? If you persist in that claim, can you give details on it?

Better, I can show you my ucla math diploma using skype. It is always fun talking to losers like yourself face to face. This is fun for me, because you are a loser posing here, and you expect I am just like you. I can yell at you using skype. This is great.

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