/sci/ - Science & Math

>people would pay
You really think someone will ever pay for the knowledge you are gaining right now? It is purely for fun, for your joy.

The soft skills are important, but nobody is going to pay you money for knowing that all differentiable functions are also continuous. If you use any of what you learned in undergrad right out of school it'll be because you also took statistics, comp sci, economics, finance, or engineering classes.

>''highly theoretical stuff''
>BSc
you're full of shit, what classes are you taking?

>>9053406
>It is really something useful=market
FUCK THE MARKET

>>9053440
Diff. Equations
Analysis & Group
Logic & Automata
Discrete

>>9053475
>Diff Equations (1960 pov dynamical system, 1880 otherwise)
>Analysis (19th century)
>Group(1870)
>Discrete (1899, maybe 1939 turing machine)

>>9053475
none of those things are ''highly theoretical''. you'd only find those stuff in your senior year or in grad school. i'm pretty sure you can apply all of those things in computer science or electrical engineering.

>>9053406
It's useful if you plan on being a Math teacher to high-school or gym students. Unless you're studying in an Ivy League college, it will not be useful to apply for jobs like soft. dev., electrical engineering, etc, because, for those jobs, employees seek undergrads of the respective fields (CS, Electrical Engineering, etc). So yes, you're fucked. A Math degree is about as good as a History or Philosophy degree.

>>9053406
Computer Science we do today was all done about 20 years ago, some of it a hundred years ago.

For example all modern "cutting edge" in memory dbms, that was some guy's thesis in 1991. The technology back then didn't exist to implement it, but now it does.

Same goes for Machine Learning/AI. They've been doing papers on it since the late 1970s but only now can they do anything with it. My class in Machine Learning routinely uses some guy's thesis from 1979 so write a good thesis, people will be forced to read your shit decades from now and you will essentially be I M M O R T A Lsz

>>9053910
>Actuarial sciences
>Statistics
>Data science

Pretty sure there's enough developer jobs out there for math majors who specialize in computer science also.

>>9053420
>>9053440
>>9053471

I am gratified that there are early posts which think correctly. The real point of an education has never been, and never will be, to make money, and I say this as a guy who votes Republican periodically, and is annoyed with youthful leftism.

>>9053992
So $300k starting isn't just a meme. It's a lie.

Enjoy your poverty autistic Meth fags
> Be me t. Electrical engineer college student
> *Summons Smug anime face*

>>9053910
You fucking brainlet.

Math is literally a better degree for CS purposes than a real CS degree.

Employers would rather hire a software developer with a math degree than with a CS degree.

Holy fuck

>>9053406
math is fun as fuck, especially in the logic/reasoning/proof courses

as for use, theres no math factories. Youll be hired purely for your quantitative and problem solving capabilities. Might want to pick up a skill like programming or some kind of crafting skill if you want to go the engineering/design route

>>9053406
>hard time understanding why people would pay for highly theoretical stuff that will probably be useful only 200 years later.

>tfw planting an oak tree

>>9054011

I don't know where this meme started, but it's blatantly false.

t. has a math/cs double major and has worked in the software industry. no one cares about your math degree, just your previous work and projects.

>>9053406

Is that sexual harassment?

>>9054004
Actually applied math is really sought after in finance. And with a masters, you really can make a lot. Just don't fuck your GPA and be brainlet; this goes for any major really.

>>9056933
No the cat clearly enjoyed it since he did it voluntarily after the person removed his hand