• Question: Why did you become a mathematician

    Asked by busy1scan on 23 Sep 2025. This question was also asked by here1scan, menu1scan, farm1scan, hewn522doat, keep1scan, duke1scan, sake1scan.
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      John Easton answered on 23 Sep 2025:

      I wouldn’t call myself a mathematician, but I use maths a lot as part of my job. Both to try and understand what is happening when a system isn’t working the way it’s expected to. Also, when designing a system to get a view of what might be possible to achieve.

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      Lucy Rycroft-Smith answered on 23 Sep 2025:

      I like thinking about structure and pattern, and decomposing things into parts, and abstracting ideas – exactly the same reason I am an artist!

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      Eliza Karlowska answered on 24 Sep 2025:

      Maths has always been a part of my job, but I am also a computer scientist, science communicator and many other things! I really like that I can use Maths in my job to understand the weather better 🙂

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      Conall Kavanagh answered on 28 Sep 2025:

      I also wouldn’t call myself a mathematician, but I have to use maths in my work to understand the behaviour of gas flows in space.

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      Allyson McIntyre answered on 29 Oct 2025:

      I would not call myself a mathematician- however I use maths routinely in my career. I loved maths at school as it was logical and there was a right and wrong answer. However, I could never “see” a career as a mathematician as such. So I ended up doing chemistry where i could apply maths and opened a lot of career opportunities for me.

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