Being a Professional Mathematician

Mathematician Case Studies

This page links to interviews with contemporary mathematicians about their work as professional mathematicians and to accounts by historians of the careers of mathematicians of the past.

Contemporary mathematicians

Danny Brown (mathematics teacher)
Nira Chamberlain (mathematical modelling consultant)
Rosemary Dyson (academic)
Peter Furness (consultant in decision analytics, modelling and data mining)
Jay Jobanputra (risk business analyst)
Sue Merchant (management consultant)
Mason Porter (academic)
Gwyneth Stallard (academic)

Mathematicians of the past

Thomas Harriot (by Jackie Stedall, historian of mathematics)
Emilie du Chatelet (by Patricia Fara, historian of science)
James Joseph Sylvester (by Karen Parshall, historian of mathematics)
Florence Nightingale (by Noel-Ann Bradshaw, mathematician)
Hugh Everett III (by Tony Mann, mathematician)

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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