for any mathematicians that might be here; what companies actually employ mathematicians?
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There are a lot of people who have mathematics degrees that don't have the job title "mathematician". They work as programmers, systems analysts, etc.\n\nOne job that does have "mathematician" in it is "actuarial mathematician". They are the people who figure out what your car insurance rates should be based on the likelihood of your being in an accident.\n\nThere are also cryptomathematician employed to break codes and cyphers.  The Department of Defense employs a few of those.
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Try these websites, so you have something to cite in your paper:\n\nhttp://www.mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.why.math.html\nhttp://www.mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/52324.html\nhttp://www.maa.org/careers/index.html\nhttp://www.maa.org/t_and_l/sampler/rs_6.html\n\nThere are many more, but these should get you started.  Follow some of the links, I didn't look at all of them.
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i have heard that it is MIT. that could be a rumor though.
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Ask your local colleges about work, put a notice up at the local library and your local shops. \n\nI've been looking for a Maths teacher! I am a mature student and although I have 2 degrees maths is one of my weak points. I would like a crash course in maths 5 sessions sometime this month. If you are serious about teaching maths you could drop me an email.\n\nOJ\n\nP.S.\nI live in West London too!
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Actuaries (work with life insurance, pensions, general insurance, finance, etc)\n\nIn the UK once you completed the exams £60,000.  Does go a lot higher.  Probably one of the highest paid jobs...but remember money isn't everything!  You must balance the money-fun equation (more money less time to spend and enjoy it, less money more time to spend!)\n\nBut certainly in the UK mathematicians are in demand (along with IT.  I have people working in our admin who have history and English degrees - because there are simply no jobs for them (the ones who have maths A level - go into accounting).
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Math is needed for lots of things!\nDo your homework!\n\nhttp://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.why.math.html\nThere are actually thousands of different jobs that require some knowledge of mathematics. Here are more than 30 firsthand accounts from Mathematicians at Work telling what some college math majors are doing, from an Air Traffic Control Systems Analyst and a Lawyer to a Data Capture Facility Troubleshooter on the Hubble space telescope.\n\nExactly How Is Math Used In Technology?, from the Mathematics Department of the British Columbia Institute of Technology, provides examples of math uses for biomedical engineering, food technology, building technology, chemical sciences, civil and structural engineering, graphics and computer-aided drawing (CAD), electronics, environmental health, mechanical engineering, mining technology, nuclear medicine, occupational health, petroleum technology, prosthetics, forestry and wildlife, robotics, and surveying.
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The skills you learn in doing geometry proofs, to prove something using minimal assumptions and logical arguments, will serve you well in many professions. Some fields that might require these skills, besides mathematics, are scientific research, law, business, economics, public relations, almost any career where you need to sometimes convince someone else to do or buy somethings.
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The history of maths or on a famous mathematician.
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Here are a few:\n\nContinuum Solutions\nVishesh Infotecnics\nmarketRx\nWMN Global Services\nEvalueserve\nGenpact\nMcKinsey and Bain
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The above answers are good guidelines but the ACTUAL mathematic formula is considered patented proprietary information, and nobody knows exactly how it works except for the agencies that use them.  That's why all the information out there is so general....because nobody really knows and Fair Isaac isn't telling.
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Operations research and Finance in the aread of business deal extensively and leverage mainly on mathematics. Mathematics aid business from simple arithmetic calculations to that of sophisticated complex systems analysis, logistic and even decision making. Finance rest of mathematics as a backbone to aid in accounts and book keeping.
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The formula involves complex maths calculations. Ask some maths professor.
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I worked in a research and development lab building electronic prototype production machinery - trust me - I used a calculator and a pencil much more than any of the other more conventional tools.\nI now work as a general contractor - and, once again, I'm using math all the time extensively to compute materials needed and materials cost as well as the actual building plans.\n\nGreat story on your link. Good for him!
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My school uses Mathematica, but it's only on laptops or computers. I believe TI-89's and above have pretty close capabilities as Mathematica.
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Hi, i dont have a company in mind, but in the States there're some that help sudents go on their studies. One of them is Aspira, which is in NYC. It helps latin american students.
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I've just about got my math degree, and I'm trying to figure that out! I'll let you know in a couple of months!\n\nMy understanding is that math education gives good prep for a wide variety of careers--not just finance, but you could do computational/statistical work for physicists or biologists (bioinformatics is supposed to be a white-hot field nowadays). You'd also have a leg up if you wanted to become some kind of scientist or engineer. If you tend toward algorithmic thinking, you could become a computer scientist or a straight-up programmer--if you're good at geometry and linear algebra, you might be able to do graphics programming, e.g. for games or movies. You could get into cryptography and cryptanalysis, or more generally you could study techniques in data compression or transmission. You could go on to specialize in operations research, a discipline upon which present-day industry relies quite heavily. It really goes on and on, but I think the real trick is choosing. I've also heard from a couple of people that law schools will consider prospects with math backgrounds, because of the kind of thinking that goes into writing proofs, if you're good at those.
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Mathematics makes significant contributions to IT, supporting the development of both hardware and software systems. Some examples of maths that have specific application to IT (in a digital as opposed to analogue computer) are:\n\nBoolean logic:\n\nThis is a system of mathematics based around the binary states True and False (represented typically as non zero and zero). A number of basic logical operations are defined from which infinitely more complex logical rules can be built. These operations are defined in terms of inputs and outputs, and the effects can be shown by truth tables. The basic logical operations are:\n    NOT (negation)\n         Input    Output\n             T          F\n             F          T\n     OR (either or both inputs may be True)\n         Input1  Input2   Output\n             T           F          T\n             F           T          T\n             T           T          T\n             F           F          F\n     AND (both inputs must be true)\n         Input1  Input2   Output\n             T          T           T\n             T          F           F\n             F          T           F\n             F          F           F\n     XOR (one and only one input is true)\n          Input1  Input2   Output\n             T          T           F\n             T          F           T\n             F          T           T\n             F          F           F\n\nThe application of this to IT may not be immediately apparent, but this system of logic underpins both the design of the microprocessor in modern personal computers and the means to implement decision making in programming. Rules such as the following can be constructed:\n\nIf (AuthorAlive = True) AND (AuthorNotPaidEnough = True) Then GiveAuthorPayRise\n\nBinary representation:\n\nBinary is a system of mathematics based around the presence of only 2 numbers, 0 and 1. Where we have a tens column in decimal, this becomes a twos column in binary, the hundreds column becomes a fours column, the thousands column and eights column, and so on. Both processing and data storage devices in a digital computer work on a binary system at the lowest level and this has important ramifications for the capabilities of the computer.\n\nWe frequently refer to a single binary digit as a bit. Ultimately all bandwidth and data storage capacities are measured in bits, because this is the fundamental unit a computer works on. The internal limitations of a computer are derived from properties of binary mathematics.\n\nThe reason that a digital computer is built on base 2 representation is that it is much easier to construct systems with 2 stable states as opposed to more. This can correspond to the presence or absence of voltage, a north versus south pole magnetic field, a True or False boolean value in a logic gate and so on.\n\nAdditionally:\n\nThere are a lot of mathematical problems or modelling that are represented using computers. The very early origins of the computer were heavily driven by their application as calculating machines (to calculate the trajectory of artillery shells, for instance).\n\nAlso, as with any modern engineering, the field of mathematics heavily underpins IT at the physical level, through physics. We could not design a modern computer without the application of a lot of physics and therefore Maths.\n\nTherefore, this really is a very open wide ranging question.