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Re: Math in careers

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Originally Posted by Dmentor View Post
If you love math then you would like my job. I work on SONAR systems for a living.

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Vision without a task is only a dream. A task without a vision is but drudgery. But vision with a task is a dream fulfilled.

Dean Kamen quoting an ancient saying
Except for a gifted few, most people go through school/college grinding through courses because it is required. If you are lucky you will find a job that will challenge you to really go back and learn something well.

I'd like to flip Dmentor's statement and say you can really learn to love math by doing a job like his. The work can be so compelling it leaves you gasping for more math knowledge and skill.

I was never a great math student but when I started doing signal processing it was an eye opening experience, both in the applications and how you really learn math.
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