Selected Expositions of Great Mathematicians-Arnold Ross
Arnold E.Ross born in Chicago (1906, a year after the Annus Mirabilis), only child of Jewish emigrants from the Ukraine, was an extraordinary human being and a researcher in Mathematics. In a feature article that appeared in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society (Vol-48, #7) August 2001, he was described to be a mathematician always a step ahead organising a program to improve a teacher's mathematical knowledge. In all his endeavours his aim was to kindle a passion for intellectual challenges.
When once asked about the early influences in his life he refersed to his mother and said that she made him feel the mystery of language as a tool for communication. His father wanted him to be an engineer, but he wanted to become a mathematician. At the tender age of 17 he was confronted with a difficult situation. “ If you study engineering I will help you, if you want to be a mathematician you can starve on your own”said his father....
Thus at that tender age he went on to earn his tuition fees by working in a book binding shop and thus landed into the Mathematics department at University of Chicago. Luckily for him Prof.E.H.Moore took special care and attention to hone his skills in basic concepts and thus the young boy later turned into a great number theorist. Among the achievements of Ross, one of his students became the first black woman to receive an M.S in Mathematics. Arnold Ross is most famously remembered for the Ross Summer Mathematics Program funded by the Ohio state University and the National Science foundation of the US. This was a program aimed at deepening the mathematical understanding of high school and junior college teachers.
This program of Ross was so influential that there was a spill over effect leading to several similar programmes aimed at fostering Mathematical talent in the nation. Several Mathematicians of a very high calibre were inspired by his energy and enthusiasm to make mathematical exposition more penetrating.
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Opportunities in Mathematics and allied areas.
This article is in response to queries raised by some of my students. Yes Mathematics has come of age and there are lots of opportunities if you have a problem solving bent of mind, creativity and curiosity in patterns. Provided one takes all of these qualities seriously, pursuing mathematics can be quite rewarding. Here is a list of different careers (alphabetical order) one can think of after being graduated in “Mathematics”
1.Actuaries 2.Aerospace modeling 3.Bioinformatics 4.Computational Finance 5.Computer related modeling6.Computer Animation and Digital Imaging 7.Communication service providers 8.Cryptology 9.Engineering Research 10.Electronic related analysis 11.Financial Investment Services 12.International government and non-government agencies 13.Robotics
I can explain some of the above terms. In Actuarial Sciences one requires an understanding of the dynamics of funds that get accumulated by way of premia and then if the distribution of claims is analysed on a probabilistic basis then you can contribute toward the progress of insurance firms. Bioinformatics requires the modeling of various objects that life scientists study. Even the delivery of molecules to the targeted organ is studied via mathematical models. This is just one aspect I can relate to. Finance has a big role to offer to Math enthusiasts. In fact there is this fancy term making rounds these days ..”Financial Engineering”. Many processes involved in Investments and their returns involve dynamical systems requiring mathematical analysis. For example Wall Street firms employ a large number of Mathematicians. Even RBI has several mathematicians and working. Engineering firms like Hewlett Packard, AT-and T Bell Labs have been seeking services of Mathematicians. One can see so many names related to the mathematical world in new algorithms invented in the computer world.For example Google Inc, Microsoft Research and Yahoo Research teams have good math experts. By International agencies I mean those which serve the world community at large with constructive research and applications. The NASA for example is one among this category. The NSA is another organization which has a large number of mathematicians working. Likewise the Defence Research organizations, Aerospace modelers require huge inputs from Mathematicians. Cryptology is a term that includes a set of processes required to make possible reliable communication of digital data. This has as its main components coding schemes and encryption/decryption algorithms.
All these are apart from the mainstream occupations that a majority of Mathematicians love to do –Teaching and Research.
For further reading check out the following:
BLOOMBERG BUSINESS WEEK REPORT:
Math will rock your world http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_04/b3968001.htm
WALL STREET REPORT:
Mathematicians take top spot in job ranking study-Wall street journal online
Association for Women in Mathematics:
Read their career advice: http://sites.google.com/site/awmmath/awm-resources/career
1.Actuaries 2.Aerospace modeling 3.Bioinformatics 4.Computational Finance 5.Computer related modeling6.Computer Animation and Digital Imaging 7.Communication service providers 8.Cryptology 9.Engineering Research 10.Electronic related analysis 11.Financial Investment Services 12.International government and non-government agencies 13.Robotics
I can explain some of the above terms. In Actuarial Sciences one requires an understanding of the dynamics of funds that get accumulated by way of premia and then if the distribution of claims is analysed on a probabilistic basis then you can contribute toward the progress of insurance firms. Bioinformatics requires the modeling of various objects that life scientists study. Even the delivery of molecules to the targeted organ is studied via mathematical models. This is just one aspect I can relate to. Finance has a big role to offer to Math enthusiasts. In fact there is this fancy term making rounds these days ..”Financial Engineering”. Many processes involved in Investments and their returns involve dynamical systems requiring mathematical analysis. For example Wall Street firms employ a large number of Mathematicians. Even RBI has several mathematicians and working. Engineering firms like Hewlett Packard, AT-and T Bell Labs have been seeking services of Mathematicians. One can see so many names related to the mathematical world in new algorithms invented in the computer world.For example Google Inc, Microsoft Research and Yahoo Research teams have good math experts. By International agencies I mean those which serve the world community at large with constructive research and applications. The NASA for example is one among this category. The NSA is another organization which has a large number of mathematicians working. Likewise the Defence Research organizations, Aerospace modelers require huge inputs from Mathematicians. Cryptology is a term that includes a set of processes required to make possible reliable communication of digital data. This has as its main components coding schemes and encryption/decryption algorithms.
All these are apart from the mainstream occupations that a majority of Mathematicians love to do –Teaching and Research.
For further reading check out the following:
BLOOMBERG BUSINESS WEEK REPORT:
Math will rock your world http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_04/b3968001.htm
WALL STREET REPORT:
Mathematicians take top spot in job ranking study-Wall street journal online
Association for Women in Mathematics:
Read their career advice: http://sites.google.com/site/awmmath/awm-resources/career
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