23/01/2022
Nathan’s passion for mathematics started at a young age. He remembers being given problems to solve in maths lessons at school and having to quickly write down his answers. “I found it so fun trying to solve a problem quickly in my head, and my love for the subject has grown ever since.” For Nathan, the subject is both fascinating and rewarding.
There is a lot of analysing and problem-solving involved. Often you will get problems wrong and make mistakes, but that only makes it more satisfying when you solve them.
Mathematics in the workplace
Nathan’s BSc Mathematics course at the University of Greenwich is now widening his knowledge to where the study of maths can lead to. His course contains pure and applied mathematics and he studies “real world topics that people may not necessarily relate to mathematics.”
Nathan’s favourite module so far has been the Financial Time Series module, where he studied financial econometrics – important in many workplaces. Nathan explains that by looking at past financial data, companies can make predictions on future patterns and risks can be recognised and eliminated, for example when deciding on potential investments. Nathan says this ability to look at data and come to conclusions is why companies need mathematicians.
