At all colleges and universities, there are students who use math daily that aren’t necessarily math majors or affiliated with the math department or math club. These students use math in their classes, their daily work, and throughout their lives.
How do you go from passionate, math-loving student to career mathematician? Let us walk you through it.
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The road to a professional mathematics career can sometimes be a long and winding one, but there are many different paths to take. Mathematicians work in a variety of fields including academia, the government, and the private sector with a variety of training from an undergraduate degree, to a masters degree, and all the way to a Ph.D.
Two Sigma is a systematic investment manager founded with the goal of applying cutting-edge technology to the data-rich world of finance.
Raj, Cristina, Yuting, and Wenying have worked as quantitative researchers at Two Sigma for several years. Raj has an MS in Applied Mathematics, Cristina has a PhD in Physics, Wenying has a PhD in Mathematics, and Yuting has a PhD in Statistics. Learn more about these quantitative researchers’ experiences at Two Sigma.