# Math Help - algebraic fractions

1. true....... im looking for money and around couple hundred thousands a year for my future life...
i wonder if there is a job that has math in it that would also have an average of couple hundred thousand
i know i havent seen real math yet but i might want to get ready right?

2. To learn LaTeX thoroughly could take a long time, but for basic things, you could learn everything you need to know very quickly.

For example, double click on skeeter's expression to see what was typed to get it:

\frac{3a}{2a-1} - \frac{1}{2a}

There is not too much going on here.

In order to get it to render on this forum, you use  tags. There is a LaTeX Help subforum on MHF here, along with a tutorial. You can start making pretty expressions pretty much instantly, just look at the tutorial and play around with it..

Edit: For some reason, the PDF in the most recent tutorial thread is a broken link. You can get the PDF from this thread. I will notify the mods about the broken link.

3. If you're going to be doing a job that makes money, you'll pretty much never be doing real math. Some jobs like quantitative finance make a lot of money (if you're good, maybe 200,000 a year--I think, I don't really know, this is a guess based on what friends have suggested to me) and use some hard math. But it's still not real math. By real math, I mean like mathematical research. Maybe that's a definition of "real math" based on a prejudice.

4. mathematical research :O
like invent equations?

5. Originally Posted by buck
mathematical research :O
like invent equations?
Yeah. To me that's real math. I'm probably being too much of a purist and too philosophical about the point, but that's what I think of as real math. Nobody does that and makes huge money except some of the absolute smartest people in the world. Everyone else is just a teacher making $\approx 120,000$ which is not bad unless you have huge student loans and then it's still not bad but not great.

If you're looking at mech engineering, probably doing a much easier job and making a bit more money, you just need calc, differential equations, and linear algebra. If you're smart, you could knock that out by your first year of college.

6. my asian parents are like uni uni! college dont get the mo pay job! :@
i dont even know whats up
ill be on the forums later, im going to go upstairs.

7. What grade are you in NOW ? Attending math classes?

By the way, Latex is NOT math: it's simply a way of typing differently.

8. Originally Posted by ragnar
It makes your writing look much nicer. If you take advanced college courses in mathematics, professors will encourage you to use LaTeX. If you get university degree in mathematics you will need to write a piece of original research which must be produced in LaTeX. If you publish anything in the sciences or mathematics, it must be produced in LaTeX.

If you're not going to go very far beyond calculus, though, you'll never really need it.
What!?!? you use Latex in Uni? Wow now I'm so happy I learnt it!

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