Being a Professional Mathematician
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Nira Chamberlain
“You don’t need anybody’s permission to be a great mathematician”
One of a series of interviews with professional mathematicians
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Nira Chamberlain is a mathematical modelling consultant. He talks about:
- His career (at time 0:10)
- The skills mathematical consultants need (1:37)
- Professional bodies and Chartered status (2:22)
- Doing a part-time PhD and working the “Nairobi shift” (3:53)
- The obstacles he has faced (5:03)
- the joys of being a professional mathematician (6:42)
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This project was supported by the MSOR Network, the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications and the Universities of Greenwich and Birmingham as part of the National HE STEM Programme and was completed in May 2012.
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