Question: What is it like being a mathematician?

Rachel Edwards answered on 26 Sep 2025:

Hi! I’m not actually a mathematician! I’m a physicist, but I use maths every day as the language for describing how the world works. Maths is really important in loads of subjects, and we might use it for calculating statistics on experiments, or using equations to work out what we would predict to happen, or lots of other things. I much prefer my maths to be a toolbox – whereas some of my friends like maths just by itself because it’s beautiful.