Timeline for "Industry"/Government jobs for mathematicians
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| Oct 26, 2010 at 22:55 | comment | added | Bjørn Kjos-Hanssen | I think the analogy with teaching works best if you mean those colleges that value teaching higher than research. | |
| Jun 18, 2010 at 17:05 | vote | accept | Wilson | ||
| Jun 18, 2010 at 2:44 | comment | added | Michael Greenblatt | Sure.. but I think it's easier to succeed at this sort of thing in industry, at least in the defense contracting industry, due to the huge amount of money available and the concomitant lower standards (not to mention that so many contracts were only open to US citizens/permanent residents which restricts the applicant pool). I may be somewhat biased due to my own experiences here but there really was a lot that I saw that was just jaw-dropping. | |
| Jun 18, 2010 at 2:30 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | Michael, "spinning your research" happens in academia too. When applying for an NSF grant, people try to make their research seem more attractive by drawing connections with more fashionable areas. This is a fact about human nature and I don't think it has much to do with industry/government per se. | |
| Jun 18, 2010 at 1:48 | comment | added | Michael Greenblatt | Incidentally I think this is related to the source of some of the questionable research you see in industry.. oftentimes people want to pursue their own research interests and not necessarily those of the company, so they try to spin their own research as useful for national defense or whatnot. Due to government largesse in things like the war on terror, it sometimes works. | |
| Jun 18, 2010 at 1:28 | history | answered | Timothy Chow | CC BY-SA 2.5 |