Re: mathematician salaries

Jesse F. Hughes: about the job posting. Though
the abstract mentions math and hard science, we find this entry:
PhD fields sought: Finance

What is Jesse's point? Mark is in the finance industry. Jesse
obviously does not know what finance is about. Jesse obviously
believes finance is just about pricing options using esoteric
mathematics. Jesse, dude, finance is a vast field, and options pricing
is just 7% of it. Most of finance is about companies and how they
obtain financing in its various forms. That's why it's called
"finance." Get it? Why doesn't Jesse learn about the other 93% of a
field before criticizing? Warren Buffett doesn't price options. Is
Jesse going to tell Mr. Buffett he is not in finance? Saying that
stochastic mathematics defines "finance" is equivalent to saying that
"knot theory" defines math. Knot theory is just a tiny subfield of
math.

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