>>14363732I'll answer because all these autists literally have never worked in their lives. Keep in mind I did a bachelors in both Math and Physics:
>What did you do after getting your bachelors?I worked and continue to work for the DoD as an Operations Research and Warfare Analyst. Stupid title for telling projects and engineers that XYZ won't work in real operational environments and then showing them the simulations to back it up. Lots of memography and groaning because you have to write everything to an 8th grade level (the military does not understand math well).
>Was it worth it?Sort of yeah. I mean, you don't really sink your teeth into anything though. My masters in applied math felt way more 'applicable' because I had a focused and concise idea of what I wanted to further my work. Also, the average math curriculum does not have enough focus on computational methods and programming. A good employable mathematicians knows how to solve math problems with programming.
>What is your current work?See first.
>How much math have you forgotten? And how does that work?Mostly integrals and differential equations. Not that I don't 'know' these things, but there are a lot of tricks and techniques and such that I used to just have trained into my muscles to recognize and blaze through. Probably a good chunk of my pure math courses, although the skills I had from them really helped in my masters so.
>And lastly a silly question... Is mathematics really the holy grail of science? Yes. I'd say applied math in particular. You really can't do any real 'work' in hard or soft sciences without knowing some amount of applied math (unless maybe you're a lab monkey, but even the lab monkeys should ideally have a working understanding of stats).
