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Behind the screens: the crystals that flow like rain down a windowpane

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Even if you don’t end up working in research, a mathematics degree is a fantastic asset for working in so many industries, including finance and engineering,” says Joseph. Everything in natural science can be reduced to physics. I think you are always a physicist, whatever field of science you work in.

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Numbers and networks: how can we use mathematics to assess the resilience of global supply chains?

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Pure mathematicians study mathematical concepts in their abstract forms, while applied mathematicians use maths to solve problems in the real world and are, therefore, an essential part of many other disciplines, such as the natural sciences, engineering and finance. WHAT ARE YOUR PROUDEST CAREER ACHIEVEMENTS SO FAR?

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Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History—or Not? Well, It’s Complicated…

Stephen Wolfram

Given a defined “goal”, an AI can automatically work towards achieving it. Most of our existing intuition about “machinery” and “automation” comes from a kind of “clockwork” view of engineering—in which we specifically build systems component by component to achieve objectives we want. And that’s where we humans come in.

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