First off, I have no interest in being a mathematician. Math was always and continues to be quite difficult for me.

So, as an outsider to advanced math, it blows my mind that there are people who’s entire job title is mathematician. How does that work? What does a mathematician do?

  • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    I’ve never needed anything I learned in my universities math courses

    You’ve been inverting matrices left and right. You just didn’t realise.