First off, I have no interest in being a mathematician. Math was always and continues to be quite difficult for me.

So, as an outsider to advanced math, it blows my mind that there are people who's entire job title is mathematician. How does that work? What does a mathematician do?

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[–] 3 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I've never needed anything I learned in my universities math courses

You've been inverting matrices left and right. You just didn't realise.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    It is.

    Inverting a matrix is undergraduate level, particularly the advanced algorithms.

    Also the reasons why you need to invert a matrix are taught at university, not high school.

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