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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.

The Maths Careers website

The Maths Careers website is managed by the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. It provides a single starting point for those wishing to know where studying mathematics can lead. The site has a particular focus on young people between the age of 11 and 19 and provides career profiles and lots more information that will help you follow your own career with maths.

Plus Careers Library

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!

Career interview: IT project manager

Bharat Dodia tells Plus how his love of maths has taken him from turbulent times to building better IT systems for Ford.

Emily Poskett works as a government statistician for the Department for International Development. With lots of travel and the opportunity to make a real difference in poorer countries, her job is far more than just number crunching.

Victoria Gould has always known she would be an actor, and went straight from studying arts at school to running her own theatre company. But she eventually had to come clean about her guilty secret - she loves maths - and has since managed to combine a career as a research mathematician and teacher with a successful acting career on television and in theatre. She tells Plus why she needs to use both sides of her brain.

Career interview: Systems engineer

Chuck Gill caught the space bug as a child when watching Alan Shepherd launch into space. Since then he's worked as a US Air Force navigator, a satellite operator, and in the US intelligence service. These days he's busy reducing carbon emissions and preparing London for the 2012 Olympics. Plus went to see him to find out more about his career.

Maths in a minute

Want facts and want them fast? Our Maths in a minute series explores key mathematical concepts in just a few words.

How not to buckle under pressure

Ahmer Wadee explains how to keep tall structures from buckling under their own weight.
Charles Trevelyan: The geometry of design

Furniture designer Charles Trevelyan talks about the importance of maths in designing structures that are not only beautiful but also strong.
1012 and other such numbers

If you like playing with numbers, then this one's for you!
Maths in a minute: Euler's identity

Here's a quick introduction to the beauty queen amongst mathematical formulas.
Stuff happens: Listening to the Universe

Gravitational waves have opened a new window on the Universe. Find out what they are, how they were detected, and what they promise to reveal.

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