• Question: What percentage of your work is scientific compared to mathematical

    Asked by obanig to Jamie, Kristen, Sheun, Simon, Will on 24 Jun 2015. This question was also asked by Swetha__N1710.
    • Photo: William Scott-Jackson

      William Scott-Jackson answered on 24 Jun 2015:

      For me the science and maths are one and the same thing. I have to do all sorts of maths in my software to get the images I want and I use a lot of statistics to process my data and analyse the results. I’m always using mathematics as part of my scientific method.

    • Photo: Jamie Johnston

      Jamie Johnston answered on 24 Jun 2015:

      I would say I do a lot of science that requires maths, but not much maths without science.

      If I do have non-scientific equations it’s typically for statistical purposes, in which case I would be interpreting data from, you guessed it, a scientific experiment.

    • Photo: Sheun Oshinbolu

      Sheun Oshinbolu answered on 24 Jun 2015:

      I agree with Jamie. I would say my work is more biology than maths but I do use maths in my everyday work.

    • Photo: Simon Marchant

      Simon Marchant answered on 25 Jun 2015:

      Like the others say, there’s definitely both in there! For me, too, there’s sometimes science without maths (in particular biology, which I didn’t expect when I went into engineering!). But maths is so much a part of everything that I hardly notice when I’m using it anymore!

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