Alsadius comments on Mathematicians and the Prevention of Recessions - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Alsadius 26 May 2013 06:45:24AM 1 point [-]

I suspect that someone who likes hard fact and in-depth analysis, is comfortable with math, and is generally intelligent is going to have a skill set that's transferrable into a wide variety of fields.

Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 26 May 2013 07:26:34AM 0 points [-]

Seems plausible, but that doesn't tell me whether I should study math for its own sake or not.