Careers with maths
Welcome to our Careers with Maths section, a collaboration with the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications and their Maths Careers website. You can browse through the wide range of interviews in the Plus Careers Library and you'll find extensive links to the excellent information available on the Maths Careers website.
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Preventing avalanches, shaving precious milliseconds off lap-times in Formula One, creating beauty in art, music, fashion and furniture design, testing the powerful engines for new aircraft, planning the Olympics, bringing maths to life on the stage, writing fiction and reporting facts... What do all these jobs have in common? They all use maths!
Our library of in-depth interviews explore the careers of people who use maths in their jobs every day. Browse the library and discover how maths gives you skills that you can use in any career. Maths opens the door onto a wide variety of exciting careers – find out where maths can take you!
Bharat Dodia tells Plus how his love of maths has taken him from turbulent times to building better IT systems for Ford.
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Steve Traylen tells Plus about life as a Systems Administrator.
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Helen Joyce is a former editor of Plus magazine who now works as a journalist for The Economist. In August she's off to Brazil to be the paper's Brazil Bureau Chief. In between packing and learning Portuguese she has found time to tell Plus all about her varied career and the role maths has played in it. |
Adrian Dow has a huge change ahead of him: after fourteen years in the UK and around the world, he's about to return to his native Trinidad with the ultimate aim to open his own school. Plus intercepted him on the way to the airport.
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